Image, Digital

Digital scan of a 35mm color slide of a photograph taken during the unrest of 1967 by a Detroit Power . From an elevated position the southeast side of Westminster Street, between Oakland Avenue, and Goodwin Street, the camera peers down where a group of helmet-clad workers surround the base of a utility pole on the northwest side of the street. A green utility truck is parked beside them. The lot beyond is filled with the rubble of a burned down building.

According to the photographer, the man gesturing to the camera was his boss.