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The Algiers Motel at 8301 Woodward Avenue [7] near the Virginia Park district was a black-owned business, owned by Sam Gant and McUrant Pye. It was one of three motels in Detroit owned by Gant and Pye, the others being the Alamo, at Alfred and Woodward, and the Rio Grande, on West Grand near Grand River. [8]
Then, on July 25, 1967, the station came under attack again, this time from sniper fire, during the 1967 Detroit riot. Members of the National Guard were photographed while returning fire from the front lobby.
The 1968 Detroit riot was a civil disturbance that occurred between April 4–5, 1968 in Detroit, Michigan following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Less than a year after the violent unrest of 1967, areas of 12th Street (present-day Rosa Parks Boulevard) again erupted in chaos (simultaneously with over 100 other US cities) following King's assassination.
DETROIT — Three children are dead after a fire at a suburban Detroit home with no working smoke alarms, authorities said. One child called 911 shortly after 8 p.m. Sunday to report a fire at the ...
The fire was determined to be a controlled burn, which are common in the area. Police searched the site in October 2021, just a few days after that fire. It's not known what, if anything, they ...
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 ...
Detroit City Council President Mary Sheffield speaks about the youth in Detroit and how community needs to come together before there can be legislation after a mass shooting killed two people and ...
Detroit: 1967-07-23-28: 43: Race riot in which 43 people were killed [2] Algiers Motel incident: Detroit: 1967-07-25/26: 3: Three civilians shot and killed by police at the Algiers Hotel during the 1967 Detroit riot, dramatized in the 2017 film Detroit: Robison family murders: Good Hart: 1968-06-25: 6: Mass murder of family from suburban ...