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Sep 27, 2017 · In mid-July, 1967, the city of Newark, New Jersey, erupted in violence as Black residents battled police following the beating of a Black taxi driver, leaving 26 people dead.
Mar 18, 2024 · Detroit Riot of 1967, series of violent confrontations between residents of predominantly African American neighbourhoods of Detroit and the city’s police department that began on July 23, 1967, and lasted five days.
- 1965: Los Angeles. An identity check by police on two black men in a car sparks the Watts riots, August 11-17, 1965, in Los Angeles, which leave 34 dead and tens of millions of dollars' worth of damage.
- 1967: Newark. Two white police officers arrest and beat up a black taxi driver for a minor traffic violation, setting off rioting July 12-17 in Newark, New Jersey.
- 1967: Detroit. Race riots in Detroit, Michigan, July 23-27, 1967, kill 43 and leave more than 2,000 injured. Trouble spreads to Illinois, North Carolina, Tennessee and Maryland.
- 1968: King assassination. After the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. in Memphis, Tennessee, violence erupts in 125 cities April 4-11, 1968, leaving at least 46 dead and 2,600 injured.
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Composed mainly of confrontations between black residents and the Detroit Police Department, it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967, in Detroit, Michigan . The precipitating event was a police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar, known as a blind pig, on the city's Near West Side.
- Police raid of an unlicensed, after-hours bar
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- July 23–28, 1967
Jul 26, 2017 · First, the short answer: In the early hours of Sunday, July 23, members of the (overwhelmingly white) Detroit Police Department raided an illegal nightclub—called a “blind pig”—in a popular (and...
