The immediate cause of the riot was a police raid at an illegal after-hours drinking club, the site of a welcome-home party for two returning Vietnam War veterans. The police arrested all patrons in attendance, including 82 African Americans. Johnson sent U.S. Army troops to the city to help quell the violence.

The First Race Riots: Memphis and New Orleans Riots of 1866 In Memphis 12 churches were burned, 46 African Americans were killed, and more than 70 were wounded, and in New Orleans 35 African Americans were killed and more than 100 were wounded.

Dick Rowland

We didn’t have any riots (during recent demonstrations) because we’ve already been there, done that. While arsonists have torched buildings throughout the country during the recent demonstrations, Duggan said Detroit hasn’t had one protest-related fire.

President Lyndon B. Johnson

The Washington, D.C., riots of 1968 were a four-day period of violent civil unrest and rioting following the assassination of leading African American civil rights activist Martin Luther King Jr., on April 4, 1968.

The 1967 Detroit Riot, also known as the Detroit Rebellion and the 12th Street Riot, was the bloodiest incident in the “Long, hot summer of 1967″….1967 Detroit riot.

On July 26, 1967, the third day of one of the worst riots of the 20th century, Detroit police, the National Guard and Michigan State Police responded to a report of a sniper at the Algiers Motel and Manor House annex. The police beat the teenagers, hitting one youth so severely, a rifle broke.

Detroit is often likened to a ghost town. Parts of the city are so abandoned they have been described as looking like farmland, urban prairie, and even complete wilderness. In the 1940s, Detroit was the fourth-largest city in the US thanks in large part to the automobile industry.

The Algiers Motel at 8301 Woodward Avenue near the Virginia Park district was a black-owned business, owned by Sam Gant and McUrant Pye.

According to Melvin Dismukes, who is depicted prominently in the film, Detroit “is 99.5% accurate as to what happened at the Algiers and in the city at the time.” However, the Los Angeles Times wrote that “Bigelow does say there are moments of fiction, and Boal notes instances of ‘pure screenwriting.

Detroit (/dɪˈtrɔɪt/, locally also /ˈdiːtrɔɪt/, French: Détroit, lit. ‘strait’) is the largest and most-populous city in the U.S. state of Michigan, the largest U.S. city on the United States–Canada border, and the seat of Wayne County.

Lake Erie

Michigan, constituent state of the United States of America. Although by the size of its land Michigan ranks only 22nd of the 50 states, the inclusion of the Great Lakes waters over which it has jurisdiction increases its area considerably, placing it 11th in terms of total area.

Three of Michigan’s major industries are manufacturing, tourism and agriculture. The total workers in the Michigan labor force number 4.9 million people.