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....
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...
Ron Fournier says a vocabulary lesson is coupled with a history lesson as he looks about at Detroit 1967...
Don Archambault started the seminary attempting to understand the black community better., but five days in 1967 changed his ministry and life....
WXYZ's Carolyn Clifford relives July 1967 with former colleague and reporter Erik Smith...
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....
Richard Bak looks back on when the "Model City" for the United States erupted into a war zone....
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....
While few completely understand what happened, why it happened, or how it continues to affect the city today, Detroit 67, Origins, Impacts, Legacies provides critical context and helps dispel misinformation and myths that have persisted for 50 years....
