Detroit 1967

@Freep looks back to #Detroit67 unrest, with perspective from today. Real-time updates start 7/23, 3:35 a.m., 50 years after unlicensed bar raid sparked riots.

[Detroit 1967 @Detroit_1967]

.@freep front page, 7/29/67: Detroit made it through the week. Chaos fading. Aftermath is another story.. #Detroit67

[Chris Megerian @ChrisMegerian]

The president is now being fact checked by Playbill https://t.co/drEBHfAU0Y

[Chad Livengood @ChadLivengood]

July 29, 1967 @MIChronicle declared after 6 days of Detroit burning: "IT COULD HAVE BEEN STOPPED!"
Editorial: "eruption of a cancerous sore"

[Detroit Free Press @freep]

The @Detroit_1967 uprising made warriors of men and women. https://t.co/pTUCAilIcL

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet @ReutherLibrary @thehenryford “The effects of 1967, buried though they are, remain close to the surface of a city that never stopped contracting.” https://t.co/EOnbtlhTuJ

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet @ReutherLibrary @thehenryford 12th St. and Clairmount is Rosa Parks and Clairmount now. The blind pig: a park.
https://t.co/iWt9neZ7GN

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet @ReutherLibrary @thehenryford To read and listen: https://t.co/6cMrs8sBmx .... https://t.co/rlMGGnN3Im .... https://t.co/hwXHFPQZFh

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet To look: https://t.co/DueqLI1RRx @ReutherLibrary, https://t.co/lzHFXm9p42 @thehenryford

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet 50 years later. Detroit still wrestles with legacy of '67. Where to reflect and learn:
https://t.co/MOEA5zxcEH

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet Mayor Young: "If the insurrection of Detroit in 1967 must be called a riot, let it be recorded as a police riot." (Photo: Tony Spina/DFP)

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet Coleman Young, Detroit’s first black mayor, was elected in 1973. (Photo: DFP)

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet Still, white flight continued. Segregation continued. Police problems continued. https://t.co/RUKWStmhOQ

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet Minority hiring increased. Formation of civil rights orgs; passage of Michigan Fair Housing Act.

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet Gov. Romney called for reforms to root out discrimination in housing, education and jobs, "to avoid an even greater tragedy.”

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet President Johnson publicly ignored the report’s recommendations.

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@freep @UMich @NPR @wdet Kerner solution: create 6 million affordable housing units, 2 million new jobs; overhaul education and welfare.

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@freep @UMich Former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer:
https://t.co/m9CJedxJlr @npr @wdet

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@freep @UMich "White racism is essentially responsible for the explosive mixture which has been accumulating in our cities since the end of World War II.”

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@freep @UMich Kerner Commission, 2/29/68: "Our nation is moving toward two societies, one black, one white--separate and unequal.”

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@freep @UMich Kerner sought to answer: "What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again?" https://t.co/ccCTcAFUH3

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@freep @UMich The riots “are not part of a civil rights protest” LBJ said, but country must “attack conditions that breed despair and violence.”