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The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967". [3] Composed mainly of confrontations between African American residents and the Detroit Police Department , it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23 ...
The United States experienced a series of "long hot summers" of racial unrest during the mid-to-late 1960s. They started with the Harlem riots in July 1964, and the Watts riots in August 1965. During the first nine months of 1967, over 150 riots erupted across American cities. The most destructive riots were in Detroit, Michigan and Newark, New ...
Detroit is a 2017 American historical crime drama film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and written by Mark Boal. It stars John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jason Mitchell, John Krasinski, and Anthony Mackie. Based on the Algiers Motel incident during Detroit's 1967 12th Street Riot, the film's release commemorated the 50th anniversary of the ...
The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city's bloody 1967 race riot is receiving a historic marker. A ...
The conclusions of the Kerner Commission, appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson, shocked white society in 1968 and remain relevant today.
In 2013, Mercilee Jenkins' play Spirit of Detroit was performed at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History. The play is centered on the stories of Anthony, a black man, and Lucy, a white woman who were friends in childhood and reunited during the 1967 riot, at the Algiers Motel hiding out from the violence. [82]
Harris, who now lives in New Mexico, is featured in American Experience's upcoming documentary, "The Riot Report." It will air at 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 21, on New Mexico PBS, channel 5.1. It will ...
1967. Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1 remake: 2006) Hurry Sundown; In the Heat of the Night (2 sequels: 1970, 1971) The Story of a Three-Day Pass; 1968. Black Panthers* (France/US) Finian's Rainbow (Ireland/US) The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; Planet of the Apes ; 1969. Change of Mind; The Learning Tree