On July 23, 1967, race riots left an irrevocable mark on the racially divided city when a police raid sparked widespread violence. It remains one of the country’s deadliest riots. ,” at Twelfth Street and Clairmount Avenue, located in a predominantly black neighborhood of Detroit. Police had intended to arrest just a few people at the unlicensed bar, but found 82 people inside attending a party for two returning Vietnam veterans. They attempted to arrest everyone at the scene, and the crowd that watched became increasingly hostile. Just a few hours later, widespread looting and gunfire began, and hundreds of policemen faced off with a mob of thousands. “It looks like Berlin in 1945,” then-mayor Jerome Cavanagh is reported to have said. Time magazine called the six days of unrest that followed “the bloodiest uprising in half a...
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