RIOTS OF DETROIT
JULY 1967
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The blind pig above this printshop at 9125 12th Streetbetween Clairmount andAtkinson streets became theflashpoint for the chaos. Policeraided the club at 3:40 a.m.Sunday, July 23. As the lastarrestees were loaded intopolice cars, a bottle crashedthrough a squad car window.What had been Saturday nightrevelry quickly turned into acrowd of about 200 shoutingangry cries against "the man"and "whitey."
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Police watch as chaos spills into theintersection of 12th and Clairmount in Detroitfollowing a predawn police raid on a blind pig --an illegal drinking establishment. It is Sunday,July 23, 1967. When the violence ended fivedays later, 43 people had died. The racial unrestbecame known as the nation's worst.
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