How to Share Your Story
Using your phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop, record a 10-15 minute memory. Please address the questions below. That helps us with consistency.
If you do not want to share an audio recording with us, you can share your story by writing as well.
After you've looked over the questions, share your story!
Please Note: This should be a memory of an event or a place, with details such as names and dates stated as clearly as possible. This should NOT be a recorded opinion related to a political or social issue – these will not be saved. Of course, opinions related to the event or place you are memorializing are fine, but they should not constitute the bulk of your narrative.
QUESTIONS
- What do you call the events that took place in July of 1967? (Uprising, rebellion, riot, revolution, or civil unrest)
- How old were you in July 1967?
- Where were you living at the time?
- Where were you the morning of July 23rd?
- Where were you working?
- How did you first hear about what was happening on 12th Street?
- Could you see anything from where you were (smoke, fire, people in the streets)?
- What was your first reaction?
- Had you anticipated this could have happened in Detroit?
- Where did you stay during that week?
- Were you involved in the looting?
- How did that week play out for you?
- Over the course of the week, did you see any 'unrest' firsthand?
- Did you interact with looters, law enforcement, the National Guard, or the US Army?
- How did you feel that week?
- If you were living in Detroit, did you move out of the city?
