Pamela Taylor was five years old, living in the 12th and Clairmount area of Detroit in 1967. She vividly remembers the tanks and smoke that hot July. She also has a good friend who is a professor at Wayne State. Over the past couple of...
“Many people moving or visiting Detroit now, say things like,’It’s making a comeback,’ and behave as if the city is a new discovery,” says artist Sydney G. James. “I would argue Detroit NEVER left.” James left Detroit for a seven-year stint in LA, but she always...
The turmoil of 1967 was the result of problems spanning decades, and it has taken decades to pick many of those pieces up. But there is change afoot in Detroit. Look beyond the new stadia and polished hotels downtown, and you will see glimmers of...
July 24, 2017- Thomas Sugrue was celebrating his fifth birthday on July 24, 1967, and his big surprise was a trip to a parade near his home on Asbury Park. The parade would be like none other, as National Guard vehicles rolled down Fenkell on...
Published by Crain's Detroit Business At one point, Joe Von Battle's record store in Detroit had an inventory of 35,000 albums and the equivalent of almost $2.5 million in revenue. That was in the late 1940s, when Joe's Record Shop on Hastings Street was just one...
Original article from BBC News by Courtney Subramanian Darryle Buchanan was approaching his 12th birthday when he awoke on the morning of 23 July 1967 to the sounds of what appeared to be a raucous party outside. As the young altar boy rose from his bed and...
The Detroit 67 project has convened conversations across the city to help the region come together for the next 50 years. An event bringing together civic, business, and community leaders led to a candid dialogue about the progress of the last 50 years in Detroit...
The Detroit Historical Society collected over 500 oral histories as part of the Detroit 67 Project. Today's Detroit Free Press features the oral history of Lucile Watts, a Detroit lawyer who worked to release black men wrongly detained during the July 1967 uprising. Ms. Watts...
Hollywood came to Motown on Monday night for the world premiere of director Kathryn Bigelow’s Detroit. The Detroit Free Press has the emotional response to the riveting depiction of the killing of three African-American men at the Algiers Motel, a pivotal incident during the events...
Detroit Historical Society and Emagine Entertainment Partner to Encourage Audiences of Detroit Film to Visit Detroit 67 Exhibition to Gain Perspective on Detroit’s Civil Unrest DETROIT, MI – The Detroit Historical Society and Emagine Entertainment, Inc. are encouraging audiences of the Hollywood film “Detroit” to visit...