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1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
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Great Lakes Books series |
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Great Lakes books.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Illustrations; Preface; Prologue; Persons Often Mentioned; I. The Event; 1. Detroit: July 23-31, 1967; Hope Disappointed; Riot Erupts on the Sabbath Day; The Second Day, Monday; The Third Day, Tuesday; The Fourth Day, Wednesday; The Harlan House Incident; The Tanya Blanding Incident; The William Dalton Incident; The Algiers Motel Incident; The Larry Post Incident; Sniping Continues; The Fifth Day, Thursday; The Sixth Day, Friday; The Seventh Day, Saturday; The Eighth Day, Sunday; The Ninth Day, Monday; 2. Detroit: 1943-1967 |
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Remembrance of Things Twenty-Five Years PastA Model City; Race Riot: 1943; A Young New Mayor; His First Police Commissioner; A New Police Commissioner; The Citizens Committee for Equal Opportunity; Conservative Reaction; The Riots Move Westward; The Kercheval Incident; A Young Old Mayor; "The Urban Challenge"; 3. Riot Response: The Police and the Courts; Were the Police Firm Enough?; The Administration of Justice; The American Civil Liberties Union; 4. Riot Response: The Mass Media; News Blackout; Reporting the Agony; Reporter Fatigue?; Poets and Reporters; Was the Riot a Race Riot? |
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Negro LeadershipThe National and International Press Pontificates; 5. Riot Response: The Community; Community Leadership Fails to Prevail; The Interfaith Emergency Committee; The Civil Rights Commission; Police Fatigue and the Looters; The Lawyers; The Community Assessment; H. Rap Brown's Visit; Public and Private Social Agencies; Rebuilding the City; The New Detroit Committee; Open Housing Legislation; New Employment Opportunities; II. An Interpretation of the Event; 6. Riot Aftermath: New Dimensions of the Racial Struggle; Post-Bellum Negro Leadership; The Reverend Albert Cleage Jr |
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The Federation for Self-DeterminationThe White Business Establishment; The Detroit Council of Organizations; "Message to the Black Nation"; The Inner City Business Improvement Forum; "The Monkey is Now on Cleage's Back"; Black Ministers; As the Cities Go, So Goes America; 7. Riot Patterns; Was the Riot Organized or Spontaneous?; Police Intelligence Efforts; Looting and Sniping; Detroit's Black Revolutionaries; The Black Ghettos and Self-Determination; 8. The Vulnerability of Our Cities; "A City with a Heart"; Needed: a New Dike; "The System" in Shambles; The Federal Government and the Cities |
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Urban Decay or Urban World Culture?The American Compulsion to Flee the City; III. Epilogue; Detroit After the Riot; The Algiers Motel Incident in Retrospect; Redefining the Police Function in Urban America; Random Reflections: A Half-Century After; Index |
| Summary |
During the last days of July 1967, Detroit experienced a week of devastating urban collapse-one of the worst civil disorders in twentieth-century America. Forty-three people were killed, over $50 million in property was destroyed, and the city itself was left in a state of panic and confusion, the scars of which are still present today. Now for the first time in paperback and with a new reflective essay that examines the events a half-century later, The Detroit Riot of 1967 (originally published in 1969) is the story of that terrible experience as told from the perspective of Hubert G. Locke, then administrative aide to Detroit's police commissioner. The book covers the week between the riot's outbreak and the aftermath thereof. An hour-by-hour account is given of the looting, arson, and sniping, as well as the problems faced by the police, National Guard, and federal troops who struggled to restore order. Locke goes on to address the situation as outlined by the courts, and the response of the community-including the media, social and religious agencies, and civic and political leadership. Finally, Locke looks at the attempt of white leadership to forge a new alliance with a rising, militant black population; the shifts in political perspectives within the black community itself; and the growing polarization of black and white sentiment in a city that had previously received national recognition as a "model community in race relations." The Detroit Riot of 1967 explores many of the critical questions that confront contemporary urban America and offers observations on the problems of the police system and substantive suggestions on redefining urban law enforcement in American society. Locke argues that Detroit, and every other city in America, is in a race with time-and thus far losing the battle. It has been fifty years since the riot and federal policies are needed now more than ever that will help to protect the future of urban America. All historians, from professional to novice, will find value in this compelling account of a marked moment in American history. -- Provided by Goodreads.com |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History
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Riots -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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African Americans
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Race relations
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Riots
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| SUBJECT |
Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations
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Detroit (Mich.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94002942
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| Subject |
Michigan -- Detroit
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0814343783 |
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9780814343784 |
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