| Description |
1 online resource (x, 648, [8] pages of plates) : illustrations, maps |
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"Phooie on Louie" -- The Model City -- The "Divided City" -- Detroit's War on Poverty -- "The Single Most Important Problem" : Police-Community Relations -- "The Riot That Didn't Happen" -- "A Little Trouble on Twelfth Street" : July 23, 1967 -- "They Have Lost All Control in Detroit" : July 24, 1967 -- "Law and Order Have Been Restored to Detroit" : July 25-August 2, 1967 -- Rioters and Judges -- "A Night of Horror and Murder" -- "The Worst Civil Disorder" -- "A Rough Community Division of Labor" -- Rioters, Counterrioters, and the Noninvolved -- The Meaning of Violence -- The Polarized Community -- The Law Enforcement Response -- The Ameliorative Response -- "God Help Our City." |
| Summary |
On July 23, 1967, the Detroit police raided a blind pig (after-hours drinking establishment), touching off the most destructive urban riot of the 1960s. It took the U.S. Army, the Michigan National Guard, the Michigan State Police, and the Detroit police department - 17,000 men - more than a week to restore order. When all was done, the riot had claimed 43 lives (mostly Black) and resulted in nearly 700 injuries. Over 7,000 individuals were arrested, with property damage estimates over 75 million. Yet, Detroit had been lauded nationally as a "model city" in the governance of a large industrial metropolis. The author presents a detailed study of what happened in Detroit, why, and with what consequences |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-621) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Cavanagh, Jerome P
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Cavanagh, Jerome P. fast |
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Riots -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century
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Violence -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century
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African Americans -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century
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HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)
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African Americans
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Race relations
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Riots
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Social policy
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Violence
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Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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Detroit (Mich.) -- Social policy
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Michigan -- Detroit
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781609170295 |
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1609170296 |
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