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Over the last days and nights of July, 1967, Detroit experienced weekly of devastating metropolitan collapse - one of the worst civil disorders in twentieth-century America. Forty-three individuals were wiped out, over $50 million in property was destroyed, and the city itself was remaining in circumstances of anxiety and dilemma, the scars which are still present today. Now for the very first time in audiobook, and with a fresh reflective essay that examines the occurrences a half-century later, The Detroit Riot of 1967, (originally published in 1969), is the story of that horrendous experience as advised from the perspective of Hubert G. Locke, then administrative aide to Detroit's police force commissioner. The audiobook covers the week between the riot's outbreak and the aftermath thereof. An hour-by-hour consideration is given of the looting, arson, and sniping, as well as the issues faced by the police, National Guard, and federal troops who struggled to restore order. Locke goes on to address the situation as outlined by the courts, and the response of the community - like the media, cultural and religious agencies, and civic and political command. Finally, Locke looks at the try out of white command to forge a fresh alliance with a increasing, militant black human population.
