Modern Era · North America · Politics
1967
Detroit rebellion
July 23, 1967
A police raid on an unlicensed bar in a Black Detroit neighborhood set off five days of rioting, arson, and looting. Forty-three died; federal troops were deployed. Two thousand buildings burned. It was the worst urban uprising of the 1960s and accelerated white flight from Detroit. The city never fully recovered.
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Also in 1967 (5 other events on record)
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Modern Era (1901–2000), one of 590 events from that era on Saeculum.
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