A city -- and state -- in disarray
By Lauren Gibbons
On July 23, 1967, a police raid at an unlicensed bar at the corner of 12th Street in Detroit erupted into a five-day civil disturbance that ended with 43 people dead, 1,189 injured, more than 7,200 arrests and hundreds of millions of dollars in damages.
The riot in Detroit was the largest in a series of civil disorders that broke out during the "long hot summer" of 1967, when simmering racial tensions and frustration erupted into protests, demonstrations and disturbances of varying sizes in more than 120 cities nationwide. The Detroit riot is still considered one of the most destructive insurrections in U.S. history.
The underlying issues that sparked the events in Detroit that summer were present throughout Michigan, and as the state's largest city burned, many of Michigan's other urban areas also faced various forms of unrest.
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