Posted on 07/23/2017 9:27:06 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen
I think I recall Murray Wright school colors of red and black. I used to see them during basketball season and during June Graduations. I went to Cass Tech, also on Grand River, but near downtown. Back then, Cass had eight floors to the school. Our colors were green and white.
On the day the riots began, he had just started his vacation and he and mom were on their way back from Windsor when he saw the skyline filled with smoke. Since they were planning on going up north to their cottage, he took mom up there and dropped her off then returned to Detroit and called in to his Lieutenant and informed him that he was available if needed. He waited for three days but never got a call so he headed back up north to finish the vacation.........
that was an incident at the “ALGIERS MOTEL” ...there was a Detroit Police squad known as the ‘Big Four” back in the 60’s and 70’s...a 4 man unmarked car and trust me, you didn’t fool around with these guys. At the height of the 67 riot, the big 4 caught 3 white girls at the Algiers motel and needless to say, it didnt end well. The cops were put on trial over and over, but kept getting aquitted...Coleman Young phased out the “big 4” after he was elected..man, those guys were scary..lol
Wow, amazing to think that there were teens way back that long ago.
Guide to modern headline language:
Robbery = less than 3 teens
Brawl = 3 to 10 teens
Riot = more than 10 teens
It was the beginning of the end for Detroit... the city went downhill for decades following the riots.
I was a Redford High graduate. The Red and Gray! I knew someone from U of M who went to Cass Tech. He would have been a 1970 graduate.
No not really just setting the record straight. Not for you personally.
Detroit has never recovered from those riots.
It is a shell of a once great city destroyed by Liberals on the heap of progressive politics.
The part of the Summer of Love that never gets mentioned in the wondrous liberal way back machine nostalgic recaps.
345 Dead. I had no idea it was that bad.
I was 11 and living in rural IA. I remember that and Watts riots. And Richard Speck. News was not very important to me then. Or now, really.
Probably saw a black person in real life twice a year or so.
Where did you live at that time?
Near Grand River & Livernois. About ten miles south of Wyoming St. That was where Mackinzie School was (before it was demolished) two of my sisters went there for High School.
They had a Dairy Queen across the street.
Wyoming was close to the city Dearborn, decades before Dearborn became known as Michiganistan.
Old Redford. That was a nice area at one time. They tore down that school and there were plans to build a Meijer there.
There is a very interesting Wikipedia article that puts this all in context.
List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_incidents_of_civil_unrest_in_the_United_States
1967 – Long Hot Summer of 1967 refers to a year in which 159 race riots, almost all African-American, erupted across the United States.
1967 – Avondale riots, June 12–15, Cincinnati, Ohio
1967 – Buffalo riot of 1967, June 27, Buffalo, New York
1967 – 1967 Newark riots, July 12–17, Newark, New Jersey
1967 – 1967 Plainfield riots, July 14–21, Plainfield, New Jersey
1967 – Cairo riot, July 17, Cairo, Illinois
1967 – 1967 Detroit riot, July 23–29, Detroit, Michigan
1967 – Cambridge riot of 1967, July 24, a.k.a. the H. Rap Brown riot, Cambridge, Maryland
1967 – 1967 Saginaw riot, July 26, Saginaw, Michigan
1967 – Milwaukee riot, July 30, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
43 deaths? Actually 44. They killed the city as well.
Leave it to Hollywood to throw more gasoline on the fire. I hope many of the movie theaters refuse to show the movie. That would teach Hollywood a lesson. Hit them in the pocket book.
The Civil Rights bill was passed in 1964 and the first riot happening in Watts, Los Angeles a few months later. It seems that when they win any points they see that as weakness on our part.
We will be called racist if we don’t go see the movie.
Activist types said people were racist if they didn’t go see the movie “Selma”. So I expect the same people will call us racist if we don’t go see a movie about the Detroit riot.
You wonder what liberties they may take with historic accuracy in this movie.
I wonder what triggered it off since MLK was not assassinated till 1968.
I wonder what triggered it off since MLK was not assassinated till 1968.
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