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21 Aug The Detroit Historical Society Seeks the Truth about 1967 in the Collected Memories of Those Who Witnessed It

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By Sarah Rose Sharp August 17, 2017 Originally published at CultureSource Any longtime resident of Southeast Michigan has a story about the Summer of 1967 and the infamous events that escalated to a citywide state of civil disobedience, known alternately as the Detroit Riots and the Detroit Rebellion....

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10 Aug Thomas Sugrue Speaks at Wayne State University

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July 24, 2017- Thomas Sugrue was celebrating his fifth birthday on July 24, 1967, and his big surprise was a trip to a parade near his home on Asbury Park. The parade would be like none other, as National Guard vehicles rolled down Fenkell on...

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23 Jul Words Matter

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Ron Fournier says a vocabulary lesson is coupled with a history lesson as he looks about at Detroit 1967...

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22 Jul Local Priest’s Seminary Days Changed by Riots

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Don Archambault started the seminary attempting to understand the black community better., but five days in 1967 changed his ministry and life....

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22 Jul Reliving the Riots

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WXYZ's Carolyn Clifford relives July 1967 with former colleague and reporter Erik Smith...

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22 Jul Paradise, and a Whole Lot More, Lost

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Tearing down Paradise Valley and Black Bottom were supposed to bring Detroit. Kirk Pinho's story in Crain's Detroit Business says the opposite happened....

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21 Jul Hour Detroit Looks Back at 1967

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Richard Bak looks back on when the "Model City" for the United States erupted into a war zone....

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21 Jul Lending a Voice to History

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Steve Wilke of Hour Detroit explains how the Detroit Historical Society talked to hundreds of people about their experiences during the civil disturbances in July 1967....

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28 Jun Detroit 67 Goes Live in the D

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969 Balfour St...

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28 Jun Passport to 1967

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Grab your passport, and see how Detroit is remembering 1967....

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