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The Detroit Riot of 1967 /
During the last days of July 1967, Detroit experienced a week of devastating urban collapse-one of the worst civil disorders in twentieth-century America. Forty-three people were killed, over $50 million in property was destroyed, and the city itself was left in a state of panic and confusion, the s...
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Detroit, Michigan :
Wayne State University Press,
2017.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Maps; Illustrations; Preface; Prologue; Persons Often Mentioned; I. The Event; 1. Detroit: July 23-31, 1967; Hope Disappointed; Riot Erupts on the Sabbath Day; The Second Day, Monday; The Third Day, Tuesday; The Fourth Day, Wednesday; The Harlan House Incident; The Tanya Blanding Incident; The William Dalton Incident; The Algiers Motel Incident; The Larry Post Incident; Sniping Continues; The Fifth Day, Thursday; The Sixth Day, Friday; The Seventh Day, Saturday; The Eighth Day, Sunday; The Ninth Day, Monday; 2. Detroit: 1943-1967
- Remembrance of Things Twenty-Five Years PastA Model City; Race Riot: 1943; A Young New Mayor; His First Police Commissioner; A New Police Commissioner; The Citizens Committee for Equal Opportunity; Conservative Reaction; The Riots Move Westward; The Kercheval Incident; A Young Old Mayor; "The Urban Challenge"; 3. Riot Response: The Police and the Courts; Were the Police Firm Enough?; The Administration of Justice; The American Civil Liberties Union; 4. Riot Response: The Mass Media; News Blackout; Reporting the Agony; Reporter Fatigue?; Poets and Reporters; Was the Riot a Race Riot?
- Negro LeadershipThe National and International Press Pontificates; 5. Riot Response: The Community; Community Leadership Fails to Prevail; The Interfaith Emergency Committee; The Civil Rights Commission; Police Fatigue and the Looters; The Lawyers; The Community Assessment; H. Rap Brown's Visit; Public and Private Social Agencies; Rebuilding the City; The New Detroit Committee; Open Housing Legislation; New Employment Opportunities; II. An Interpretation of the Event; 6. Riot Aftermath: New Dimensions of the Racial Struggle; Post-Bellum Negro Leadership; The Reverend Albert Cleage Jr.
- The Federation for Self-DeterminationThe White Business Establishment; The Detroit Council of Organizations; "Message to the Black Nation"; The Inner City Business Improvement Forum; "The Monkey is Now on Cleage's Back"; Black Ministers; As the Cities Go, So Goes America; 7. Riot Patterns; Was the Riot Organized or Spontaneous?; Police Intelligence Efforts; Looting and Sniping; Detroit's Black Revolutionaries; The Black Ghettos and Self-Determination; 8. The Vulnerability of Our Cities; "A City with a Heart"; Needed: a New Dike; "The System" in Shambles; The Federal Government and the Cities
- Urban Decay or Urban World Culture?The American Compulsion to Flee the City; III. Epilogue; Detroit After the Riot; The Algiers Motel Incident in Retrospect; Redefining the Police Function in Urban America; Random Reflections: A Half-Century After; Index