Readers of Detroit history and urban studies will be drawn to and enlightened by these powerful essays.

Eyewitness account of the civil disorder in Detroit in the summer of 1967. During the last days of July 1967, Detroit experienced a week of devastating urban co

On July 23, 1967, the Detroit police raided a blind pig (after-hours drinking establishment), touching off the most destructive urban riot of the 1960s. On the

Analysis of the urban riots of the 1960s with a focus on the Detroit riot of 1967.

America's urbanites have engaged in many tumultuous struggles for civil and worker rights since the Second World War. Heather Ann Thompson focuses in detail on