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May 7, 2023

Fascinating Photos Capture Street Scenes of Detroit After the Riot 1967

The 1967 Detroit Riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot or Detroit Rebellion, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the “Long, hot summer of 1967”. Composed mainly of confrontations between black residents and the Detroit Police Department, it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967, in Detroit, Michigan.

The precipitating event was a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar, known as a blind pig, on the city's Near West Side. It exploded into one of the deadliest and most destructive riots in American history, lasting five days and surpassing the scale of Detroit's 1943 race riot 24 years earlier.

Governor George W. Romney ordered the Michigan Army National Guard into Detroit to help end the disturbance. President Lyndon B. Johnson sent in the United States Army’s 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions. The riot resulted in 43 deaths, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 400 buildings destroyed.

The scale of the riot was the worst in the United States since the 1863 New York City draft riots during the American Civil War, and it was not surpassed until the 1992 Los Angeles riots 25 years later.

These fascinating color photos were taken by Kevin Mueller that show street scenes of Detroit after the riot in 1967.

Grand River and 16th, Detroit, July 30, 1967

Pingree Street, Detroit, July 30, 1967

Trumbull, Detroit, July 30, 1967

Blaine Street, Detroit, July 30, 1967

Detroit, July 30, 1967

Detroit, July 30, 1967

Detroit, July 30, 1967

Detroit, July 30, 1967

Detroit, July 30, 1967

Detroit, July 30, 1967

Detroit, July 30, 1967

Detroit, July 30, 1967

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