1967 Detroit riot
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1967-detroit-riot-182-12251228
title:
1967 Detroit riot
text:
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". Composed mainly of confrontations between black residents and the Detroit Police Department, it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967, in Detroit, Michigan. The precipitating event was a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar, known as a blind pig, on the city's Near West Side. It exploded i
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wiki
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encyclopedia
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American riot
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1967_Detroit_riot
date created:
2003-09-16T22:21:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T09:46:58Z
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