Detroit Riots
Many civil disorders have erupted across the United States. Racial tensions were at a highpoint in the 1960's with riots and looting throughout the major cities in the United States. This was not such a problem in the rural areas but the urban areas had serious racial problems between black and white people. Throughout the 1960's blacks and whites clearly demonstrated that they had many problems living segregated in the urban areas. It was a civil explosion that you can clearly see from the Detroit riots in 1967. Detroit experienced the worst civil disorder of any American city in the 20th century. Prior to July 23, 1967 Detroit had managed to avoid riots that had erupted in other major cities such as Harlem, Cleveland, Chicago, and Los Angeles. At 3:45 a.m. on Sunday July 23, 1967 twelve officers did a routine raid in a Blind Pig on 12th street. There were 82 people arrested. As the last squad car was loading with prisoners, a crowd of about 200 people gathered. They made threats towards the police and incited the crowd that had gathered. The squad car began to leave and the crowd began to throw bottles and rocks, which shattered the back window of the squad car. This started off the wors
The Tonya Blanding incident. Only four years old at the time Tonya was lying in the living room of her family's second floor apartment when guards opened fire with rifles and a tank's .50-caliber machine gun. When the firing stopped they found young Tonya lying dead in the living room. (Lee & Humphrey 109) The forth day of rioting on Wednesday, July 26 turned out to be one of the worst days of the riot. Of the 43 total fatalities that took place during the riot 7 of them were in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The ninth day was Monday, July 31. Exactly when the riot officially ended is a matter of debate. The army troops left on Tuesday, August 1; the perimeter around the police headquarters, the county jail, and the recorder's court were removed August 3; the National Guard was demobilized the following weekend. For the Detroit police officers the end came when the police superintendent, Eugene Reuter, ordered them to return to normal 8-hour days on midnight, July 31. (Shogan 124) " It had been a costly battle: 43 dead, over 700 known injured, some $ 50 million dollars in property damage and unfold and incalculable loss in wages and tax revenues to the city. Detroit had just been through the worst experience of urban violence in the nation's history." (Widick 172)
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page double spaced)
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