@@sarahpr8714 Thank you for mentioning this, the outside instigation is most often overlooked. Or should I say omitted. communist and Marxists set out to make this into a revolt not just a raided blind pig👍
The resident being interviewed near the end of the report is my late uncle Aaron Killins.....he lived with us on LaSalle at that time, and I never knew he was interviewed. .wow. Thanks Fox 2, and thanks for a great report ❤❤❤
@@mistercrockett Some might say that the summer of 2020 was worse than summer of 1967. I somewhat disagree because the causes of the 1967 riots had been simmering longer than the causes of the 2020 riots. But just like a pressure cooker; it only takes one event to piss off a whole community.
My mom grew up in Detroit and lived in poverty. As a child she was raised in rentals, at one time living above a bar with six siblings. Eventually her family moved to the projects when they were first built. tIt was an opportunity for a better place to live. My mom walked downtown Detroit to get to school. When she graduated she worked downtown for a lawyer. This was the time of the riots. One day she walked to work and there were snipers shooting. Eventually my mom and her family left Detroit. It was sad. They had to move for a safer place. It wasn’t easy, and she wasn’t the only one. In her older age she has encountered people with similar backgrounds and childhood experiences who grew up in Detroit. She found she wasn’t the only one.
My aunt used to live in Detroit in the early 70’s and left in the mid 80’s. She was a die hard liberal until the mid 80’s when I asked her why she changed her mind she said “ i don’t buy into that bs anymore”
Boom Do Umm no? Liberals statistically speaking are many times more likely to be a nice mix of different cultures and races, where as it is a fact that republicans and conservatives are majority white. Just look at our Congress people. The democrats are many races and backgrounds and the republicans are white. A group can’t be sheltered from other communities if it is made out of hundreds of different communities 🤦♂️
It’s gotten a lot better actually but it’s not perfect but I wouldn’t say it’s anywhere near as bad as it was. Progress made and more to be had police everywhere need to know if they abuse their power against blacks like history has shown they so easily can do, they need to be indicted and thrown in court before a jury. And nowadays jury pools aren’t all white anymore like they used to be. Like Elijah McClain those paramedics and cops who injected him with a lethal dose of ketamine while handcuffed in Colorado 2019, just a day or 2 ago all those involved just got indicted by grand jury
Anyone from that area knows the truth. The city died in 67 and never truly came. We are still trying to rebuild. Drive down Mack from alter to the Chrysler plant and see for yourself.
Can one imagine today, Major league all stars being in the National Guard (Mickey Lolich) called to duty for the riots, and Willie Horton (in his ball uniform, no less), going to the hood to try to quell the violence? . I, for one, cannot imagine this happening today.
Until the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020! Billions in damages and tremendous loss of life all over America. The original BLM BS seems to have started in Detroit. All who participated should be shamed, sued and jailed.
I passed through Detroit from Toronto and I’m just now learning about this. I remember asking my mom why there were so many abandoned houses that looked like that and she had no idea either. I just thought it was how their hoods looked. The history of it is crazy. Intriguing but truly sad.
What you saw is the result of a once hopeful and thriving City abandoned by the very industry that provided all the prosperity. When trade agreements forced American labour with rights to compete against foreign labour with none.
The summer of 1967 was one of violence and racial tensions finally boiling over. However, there hasn't been a decade in the United States where there hasn't been some type of civil disturbance in a major city. Take for example the 1990's; there were the Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn back in August of 1991, the Los Angeles riots from late April through early May of 1992, the Washington Heights riots of July 1992, the St. Petersburg riots in 1996, and the Seattle riots in 1999.
Why didn't the Black communities react the same way in the Deep South against the segregationist laws?.Why didn't the Afro Americans get angry at the lynchings?.Why do they burn stores , buildings in the North when Jim Crow never existed, although racist people exist ?.
My parents lived in the Detroit when this happened, they ended up staying at my grandparents house in Lincoln park and from the front porch at night they said looking towards Detroit it was a huge red glow
Back in those days, they must have thought this was what Vietnam is like. Tanks, helicopters, soldiers, etc. This riot has started the downfall of Detroit.
While some people consider the 1967 riots in Detroit, MI to be the catalyst for the decline of Detroit; many others consider the riots to be more of an accelerant. These people consider the true catalyst for the decline of Detroit to have started in 1943 when the city's then- Mayor Edward Jeffries lobbied Congress for Federal funds to build expressways leading out of Detroit into the suburbs.
@@michaellovely6601 This doesn't really make any sense. Plenty of cities have highways and major roads going to them yet people want to stay. The subs can't compare with the night life and food options of big cities. If the cities are safe people will live there and not leave.
@@beatrixkills1 Well, there was also a precursor to the 1967 riots in the form of the 1943 Detroit riots. These aren't as well-known as the 1967 riots because they were overshadowed by the Zoot Suit riots in Los Angeles, CA and World War II. The 1943 riots started over two different incidents: in the black community the story is that two white men had shot a black mother and child dead and then threw their bodies into the Detroit River; in the white community the story is that a group of black men had raped and beaten a white woman. In the end; thirty-four people lost their lives in the 1943 riots. With regards to my earlier comment I should have mentioned that the reason why Edward Jeffries had expressways built that lead out of Detroit to the suburbs is because there simply wasn't any more space to build new automotive plants in Detroit; so they had them built in the suburbs where there was more land to construct the automotive plants.
I lived in the Dexter Elmhurst area and the Most Vivid memory I have of the riots was My Grandmother Hanging up clothes in the backyard while National Guardsmen with dogs were patrolling the ally in the background, if I had a Camera it would have made the Cover of Life Magazine!
Oh I remember it, I was 7 and lived in Southfield near 8 mile and my mom worked night shift at the post office and had to be escorted in and out by police! We had a neighbor that got me and my sister scared about it coming to our neighborhood. Thank god I didn’t live closer to it!
Wow, we lived on LaSalle BLVD bet. Gladstone and Blaine. I was six years old, I remember we had to stay low to the floor at all times due to gunfire from those troops as well as snipers. My aunt lived 4 blocks down from us on the corner of Virginia Pk. Her windows were shot out, and there were bullet holes in the front of her house. We were terrified!! 😥😥😥
He said, we want the same like everybody else?!! What’s so difficult? The difficult is that now we have no slavery, no excuse, and you have the opportunity like everybody else, you can go to school, get loans, work anywhere.....etc....etc, but you never change as Society, as an individual, the way you think , the way you behave....etc...etc. Societies that always change for better, live with peace, and want prosperity will never accept to live with societies that always live in destructive manner, that never change for the better always stays the same like a lifeless rock. God is one who never changes and everything must change and accept diversity, you don’t change and you don’t accept diversity, because no one can live with you with peace or prosper, this is a punishment from God. Look at all the different societies that came to this country, they are successful as an individual and as society, except you. This will never change anywhere in the world unless you change within yourself as an individual, and especially as a Society.
They may not have slavery anymore, but they sure as hell have racism, when you have an entire country born out of racial slavery, for centuries, it tends to influence how their historical oppressors, the whites, view them, and often more than not, it was overwhelmingly racist to the core. Not to mention, they pass this belief down to their kids, who then do it to theirs. This racism, tends to influence the overall culture and government policies as a result. It's not their fault, they want everything that everyone else wants, dignity, equality, self determination, but how can they get that, when they live in a society, primarily governed and favorable to their oppressors.
Just like today, they destroyed their own neighborhoods, they looted their own businesses. Does that make sense? It never has and whether or not they had a reason for it, their reason was mute after the destructive behavior.
Yeah they destroyed their own neighborhood just for the heck of it, just for fun. White were so nice to them in 1967 and treated them with respect, I don't know why they revolted (*sarcasm off*)
Bill Gates - Oh yes .... and after all, we ALL know that the best way to get that well deserved respect is to riot and loot your own neighborhood. I just don't understand how anybody can argue against these riots, the results have been so promising. yep!!! sarcasm!!!
If we want real progress we need to honestly look at the reason why it even started. The police raided a party to arrest a few seriously violent criminals. The community decided to react to that in the worst possible way. And still we have no real acknowledgement of the horribly flawed mentality that continues to haunt the black community decades later. It's sad. We just cannot have that debate. It's off limits and so the nonsense will continue until the black community owns it own problems.
R T They raised it because it was an illegal after hours club and the party was to welcome home Vietnam vets not criminals moron! Built up tension was the cause not some party!
The community had a legitimate beef against police brutality. Once the looting, burning, and mayhem started they surrendered that legitimacy. Those shopkeepers had nothing to do with police misconduct. The police stood by and allowed the looting and arson to happen. Politicians gave amnesty to the rioters. Is it any wonder why Detroit was abandoned?
That's not true. The hood mentality dominates the majority. The evidence can be seen by just looking at the core values of the average black community from state to state, or even natuon to nation. You are trying to make the exceptions out to be the rule. Only the libtards will believe that lie.
Its won't ever change. The heart of the white man hasn't change he's the problem. I can't see how y'all can't see that. That's what it always will be cause this is not black people home we not living we surviving
This happened a few months after I was born. But for many generations after it happened the elderly talked about it. None of the burning of bldings happened in my area I grew up in.
The saddest part is the riots sparked due to frustrations (right or wrong), and all it did was make things orders of magnitudes worse than it ever was before. Glad to see Detroit is getting better, but it will never be back to pre 67.
I read that Detroit was literally one of the richest cities in the USA, in other words one of the richest cities in the whole world within living memory. To fall from such a high position to where Detroit is today is almost unbelievable. Rioting might release anger and frustration but the riots spelt the end of a great world class city, the white taxpayers fled the violence and crime and the major corporations won't invest in a high crime dangerous place, so the city tax base was slashed and no city can prosper without investment and tax revenue. You lose police, fire department, public schools, public transport, street cleaning, libraries, parks, hospitals, infrastructure etc.
The manufacturing was the heart of Detroit and it had been leaving the city since the 1920s. The factories were located around residential areas, so it wasn’t efficient for trucks to go to and from the factories. Labor costs were high, by the 70s regulatory costs were high. It was the high labor costs that made the standard of living so high. But companies are always looking for lower labor costs. Then Detroit implemented an income tax in 1962 which always makes people question whether they want to stay somewhere. By 67 the factories had started moving out side of the city limits, then to rural areas then to the south and finally to Mexico and now China. That was the heart of Detroit. Without jobs there was no reason to stay in a place where you could get killed going to the store. People who can move away from violence to a place with better job prospects are going to leave.
My husband & me with our 1 year old were there visiting my families that still lived in Detroit. When the riot broke out. we lived over in an almost all white area near Green & Vernors. Mom & I had moved to Ohio after she remarried after my Dad had passed away. Did not see any of it except on the news. It was scary because we could still hear some shooting. We saw Police having to close all corner stores that sold liquor.
A new lady who lived this she drove out of Detroit she left she remembered that so clearly she told me the story and how sad that was Detroit has really died this very day it's dyed
A boyfriend and I were coming off Bell Isle and all of a sudden we had2 flat tires we stopped at a gas station and I called my sister in Fraser Michigan. North of Detroit to let her know I’d be late. she yelled “ get home ! A riot has started!”
@OceanBlue all radical uprisings tend to consist of these things, even during the American revolution, people would commit acts of violence against loyalists and tax collectors and loot shops. Loyalists would get beaten for expressing their support for the crown and tax collectors tarred and feathered for doing their jobs, does that make our revolution any better? Sure it was for different reasons like government suppression and taxation by the monarchy, however, who's to say that blacks weren't suppressed by a bigoted, corrupt system? They faced constant racial attacks and suppression by the police, the government's racial policies, racist whites, who's to say their struggle, their fight, isn't righteous or worthy of the title of "revolution".
Im from 85 and was interested in history, and I can only imagine how those people was feeling those days But yeah we didn't know better at that time. Hopefully it never have to happen again no where on this globe. 1
I was quite young at a just six to understand how the riot impacted my community near Conner and Gratiot. However over the subsequent decade, I grew up in a declining neighborhood where violence became the dominant force. We finally caved and moved closer to Morang and Kelly (Denby HS area). I have always been saddened by the loss of that part of my childhood.
The two most dangerous streets in any City in America almost always it seems to be Rosa Park and Martin Luther King Boulevard, Street, Road Exedra Exedra. One would think those would be the most peaceful places those are two pretty big names and images to live up to for any American. But apparently not
Very interesting Very sad What was gained? It was great to see grandma on her porch So sad to see the complete emptiness and loss of people Seeing John Conyers who's still around and has been during the entire collapse His wife did her bid in jail with her arrogant self Her school board performances were legendary
In 1950, not adjusted for inflation businesses within the Detroit borders brought in $10 billion in revenue. In 1973 a teacher was beat to death at Pershing High School, 7 Mile & Ryan which by 1973 the area Pershing is in dramatically changed in just six years and was 5.5 miles away from 12th & Clairmont.
Sorry lady, nothing compare to Beirut war! Don't confuse a big war of blood shed to this. Get your facts right! 19:57 Yes, this is tragic, but bombs and explosions, and extreme blood shed isn't compare to this!
I was 5 years old and remember seeing the national guard rolling down Gratiot ave. only 2 blocks from our house near 6 mile. Was a scary time being that young.
I'm from the Eastside of Detroit...Lemay between Kercheval & Vernor. There were 2 individuals that were shot in our alley during the riot (Sunday July 23-Friday July 28, 1967). Although the 101st airborne & National Guard were there...we still went down to Plum St. A few pieces of jewelry I'd gotten from there I still have. They're extremely unique & unlike anything I've ever seen since that time. From that time until now I've lived in Detroit 3 separate times (in between NY, Houston & New Orleans. I love Detroit ❤️
I lived on Montclair & Gothe, I was 13 & our Daddy was in Herman Keifer during those horrible days, but our Neighboods came back, after the Crack Removal of the Black Family ( by Design) then our neighborhoods became blighted and we've yet to come back 😢
I live in Detroit during the riots I was even years old my dad took two days off work my dad never miss work but the day of the riots starting my dad called me in the hose made me stay in the basement well he sat in the middle of the house were he had a clear view of the front and back door of our house with a gun on the table I was scared and didn't understand I do now I hope and pray that never happen again
My brother and I grew up in the suburbs. In a citu call East Detroit. We were 9 and 10 years old. We were told to stay off Gratiot Ave.and to stay in front of the house as we rode our bikes. 😮
Some neighbours of ours crossed the border that first morning were going to the Zoo with their kids.They ended up stuck and had to drive around Detroit and crossing back across the border further up.
Identify the common central characteristics of event the compare it with events in history and the rest of the world. How they acted in Detroit is how they have acted everywhere there is a large black diaspora. There were riots in ww2 when GIs were together in the military. In the Korean war too. It's how they act in Baltimore, Paris, LA, Johannesburg, Cape town, Philadelphia, Dallas and Ferguson. This is who they are. They ALWAYS consider themselves to be victims. What they say in Detroit is what they say in capetown and everywhere else. THAT IS THE COMMON THREAD.
YOU MUST BE REALLY FUCKING BAD AT HISTORY FOR CHERRY PICKING THE RIOTS AND REVOLTS, WITHOUT BOTHERING TO CONSIDER WHAT CAUSED THEM TO DO IT, THE REASON WHY THEY DO IT IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE A HISTORY OF BEING RACIALLY SUPPRESSED BY EUROPEAN WHITES, WHETHER IT BE IN AMERICA OR EUROPE OR BRITISH-COLONIZED SOUTH AFRICA, ALL OF WHICH HAD RACIAL POLICIES THAT DEEMED THEM INFERIOR AND STRIPPED THEM OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY, YOU FUCKING TWAT, THERE WAS APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA WHICH, JUST LIKE JIM CROW IN AMERICA, CONSISTED OF RACIST LAWS OR POLICIES THAT WOULD LEAD OUTRIGHT RACIAL OPPRESSION OR TO FAVORITISM OF THEIR WHITE COUNTERPARTS, YOU FUCKING GALAXY BRAINED CRETIN
True and now they are stuck living in a nasty run down place.At the time they thought that’ll show them. They only hurt themselves and decedents stuck there
@@thrgg it could if the people were unified and had a goal in mind to fix their city. But cities like Detroit aren't ran by people who wanna bring one another together. Just more career politicians who care about the next election rather then the next school year :/
Should have interviewed the men and woman reporters who were shown literally risking their lives covering the story. Would have been interesting to hear what those days were like. As least some were given credit.
I am canadian and my father in 1967 was an Esso bulk gas agent in a small town south of Calgary in southern Alberta in Western Canada...selling gas and fertilizer to local farmers..in 1967 Esso awarded my dad a brand new gas tanker truck to do his job but he had to pick it up in Detroit from the GM plant...so my parents decided to do that and combine it with a summer holiday to Montreal for expo 67....so you imagine a full canadian small town family mom dad 2 kids and the family dog in a wood panelled station wagon rolling into Detroit and finding ourselves right smack in the Detroit riots! I was 4 yrs old but i remember when father running red lights so as to avoid stopping ...and i remember when we finally made it to the GM planet rolling up to the closed gates and they had a machine gun post there and the GM security guards going "who the hell are you people>" being absolutely floored by this station wagon of a white canadian family rolling up to them while Detroit burned! haha Reply
I should add that after we got that big brand new gas tanker we carried on to Montreal to see Expo 67 but when going back west to Calgary on the 401 between Montreal and Toronto the axle on that brand new gas tanker broke in half sending my dad and i ( brothers and mother driving station wagon ) in the tanker spinning out of control - we drove over a couple of small cars and then rolled down an exit detour hilll about a dozen times before coming to a stop blocking that exit ....why my dad never sued the shit out of GM and Esso for that happening i never figured out....tanker destroyed and i was scared of being in a vehicle for years after that - yeah the summer of 1967 i still live with every day
The Most Vivid memory I have of the riots was My Grandmother Hanging up clothes in the backyard while National Guardsmen with dogs were patrolling the ally in the background, if I had a Camera it would have made the Cover of Life Magazine!
Why doesn’t anyone report on what lead up to the riots? Or what happened to escalate it all the way to calling the national guard in and bringing tanks and snipers?
Cant they just tell the people the ugly true about what kicked this riot off?i pretty clear from the casualties and how they died what caused this riot.
No one should have a job cuz of their color,that goes for any race!!the qualified PERSON should get the job,if it turns out u end up with 5 white guys on ur crew so be it,as long as u picked the right person no one should feel obligated to hire someone just because u might not have 1 black person in ur company and it goes the same for a black led company they shouldn't have to hire a white guy just because??even tho I don't think there's usually that issue,it seems to mostly work one way!!
Hey, the guy at 16:57 fussing about being harassed by cops...my hippie big brother got pulled over regularly (in his VW Beetle) and frisked for no reason usually. One time it was because he had no wiper blades on his car, although it was summer in San Francisco and you certainly didn't need wiper blades in June.
18:00 what does that have to do with shutting down the party? you know, when those jobs moved overseas...that was for all colors. that didn't solely affect black people.
I always laugh when I see the footage of the guys actually using a Browning M2 in the streets of Detroit. I mean driving around in an APC with one on top? Sure. But actually racking a belt and opening up on a building? If there’s another time when that has ever happened in an Urban Environment In America please let me know.
My father is Jack McCarthy, the channel 2 reporter who is seen and heard throughout this video. He is 86 now and lives in Gainesville Florida.
I remember your father.
Ok , so
Did he tell you about the Black Panthers coming in and exasperating the riots and creating more havoc
@@sarahpr8714 Thank you for mentioning this, the outside instigation is most often overlooked. Or should I say omitted. communist and Marxists set out to make this into a revolt not just a raided blind pig👍
Why leave lovely Detroit. Good people live there
@ Brett I remember your father. he was a good reporter. Glad he's 86 and doing well and enjoying Florida
The resident being interviewed near the end of the report is my late uncle Aaron Killins.....he lived with us on LaSalle at that time, and I never knew he was interviewed. .wow. Thanks Fox 2, and thanks for a great report ❤❤❤
Detroit looks worse than Tikrit, Iraq...
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Well, Columbus Ohio on its way to look like Detroit the way they’ve been burning everything down, we on day 2 here of destroying our city smh 🤦🏾♂️
@@mistercrockett Some might say that the summer of 2020 was worse than summer of 1967. I somewhat disagree because the causes of the 1967 riots had been simmering longer than the causes of the 2020 riots. But just like a pressure cooker; it only takes one event to piss off a whole community.
Why don’t you move back to afrika?
My mom grew up in Detroit and lived in poverty. As a child she was raised in rentals, at one time living above a bar with six siblings. Eventually her family moved to the projects when they were first built. tIt was an opportunity for a better place to live. My mom walked downtown Detroit to get to school. When she graduated she worked downtown for a lawyer. This was the time of the riots. One day she walked to work and there were snipers shooting. Eventually my mom and her family left Detroit. It was sad. They had to move for a safer place. It wasn’t easy, and she wasn’t the only one. In her older age she has encountered people with similar backgrounds and childhood experiences who grew up in Detroit. She found she wasn’t the only one.
My aunt used to live in Detroit in the early 70’s and left in the mid 80’s. She was a die hard liberal until the mid 80’s when I asked her why she changed her mind she said “ i don’t buy into that bs anymore”
Unfortunate how personal events can convince someone to become more sheltered from other races and communities.
@@azhurelpigeon yea but that's l what liberals are. sheltered from other groups and communities. unfortunate.
Boom Do Umm no? Liberals statistically speaking are many times more likely to be a nice mix of different cultures and races, where as it is a fact that republicans and conservatives are majority white. Just look at our Congress people. The democrats are many races and backgrounds and the republicans are white. A group can’t be sheltered from other communities if it is made out of hundreds of different communities 🤦♂️
@@azhurelpigeon Liberals made Detroit what it is today
john douglas No the gas crisis made Detroit what it is.
Should NEVER be repeated. Bless the people of Detroit! With love from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada!
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History just keeps repeating itself and it changes nothing for the better!! We’re going in circles!!
It’s gotten a lot better actually but it’s not perfect but I wouldn’t say it’s anywhere near as bad as it was. Progress made and more to be had police everywhere need to know if they abuse their power against blacks like history has shown they so easily can do, they need to be indicted and thrown in court before a jury. And nowadays jury pools aren’t all white anymore like they used to be. Like Elijah McClain those paramedics and cops who injected him with a lethal dose of ketamine while handcuffed in Colorado 2019, just a day or 2 ago all those involved just got indicted by grand jury
Anyone from that area knows the truth. The city died in 67 and never truly came. We are still trying to rebuild. Drive down Mack from alter to the Chrysler plant and see for yourself.
Can one imagine today, Major league all stars being in the National Guard (Mickey Lolich) called to duty for the riots, and Willie Horton (in his ball uniform, no less), going to the hood to try to quell the violence? . I, for one, cannot imagine this happening today.
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How about Now!
Until the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020! Billions in damages and tremendous loss of life all over America. The original BLM BS seems to have started in Detroit. All who participated should be shamed, sued and jailed.
true hero's.
This was a superbly done report. Thank you FOX2 and all of the witnesses that told the story.
Imagine if the media today was around while this happend.
"peaceful protests" can turn into a "love-in" at a moments notice. :/
It would be like..... Nothing to see here folks..
The truth would be told! We got iPhones 📱
I passed through Detroit from Toronto and I’m just now learning about this. I remember asking my mom why there were so many abandoned houses that looked like that and she had no idea either. I just thought it was how their hoods looked. The history of it is crazy. Intriguing but truly sad.
What you saw is the result of a once hopeful and thriving City abandoned by the very industry that provided all the prosperity. When trade agreements forced American labour with rights to compete against foreign labour with none.
Crack cocaine is responsible for all the vacant lots in Detroit.
The summer of 1967 was one of violence and racial tensions finally boiling over. However, there hasn't been a decade in the United States where there hasn't been some type of civil disturbance in a major city. Take for example the 1990's; there were the Crown Heights riots in Brooklyn back in August of 1991, the Los Angeles riots from late April through early May of 1992, the Washington Heights riots of July 1992, the St. Petersburg riots in 1996, and the Seattle riots in 1999.
Why didn't the Black communities react the same way in the Deep South against the segregationist laws?.Why didn't the Afro Americans get angry at the lynchings?.Why do they burn stores , buildings in the North when Jim Crow never existed, although racist people exist ?.
It'll be 3 years in June of next year since the riots of 2020 (riots erupted all over the world).
And in 1861 St. Louis had pro-confederate riots
@@everettduncan7543 W 1861
What do they all have in common?
My parents lived in the Detroit when this happened, they ended up staying at my grandparents house in Lincoln park and from the front porch at night they said looking towards Detroit it was a huge red glow
Then during the 80's the red glow would reappear as houses and buildings would burn on Devils Night every October 30th. So sad.
You could see it from Rochester, my dad told me. Even my grandfather said you could see it from Bevoville
My Father grew up in the Cass Corridor during 1960s and he saw lots of terrible things happen during the violent summer riots of '67.
Back in those days, they must have thought this was what Vietnam is like. Tanks, helicopters, soldiers, etc. This riot has started the downfall of Detroit.
While some people consider the 1967 riots in Detroit, MI to be the catalyst for the decline of Detroit; many others consider the riots to be more of an accelerant. These people consider the true catalyst for the decline of Detroit to have started in 1943 when the city's then- Mayor Edward Jeffries lobbied Congress for Federal funds to build expressways leading out of Detroit into the suburbs.
@@michaellovely6601 This doesn't really make any sense. Plenty of cities have highways and major roads going to them yet people want to stay. The subs can't compare with the night life and food options of big cities. If the cities are safe people will live there and not leave.
@@beatrixkills1 Well, there was also a precursor to the 1967 riots in the form of the 1943 Detroit riots. These aren't as well-known as the 1967 riots because they were overshadowed by the Zoot Suit riots in Los Angeles, CA and World War II. The 1943 riots started over two different incidents: in the black community the story is that two white men had shot a black mother and child dead and then threw their bodies into the Detroit River; in the white community the story is that a group of black men had raped and beaten a white woman. In the end; thirty-four people lost their lives in the 1943 riots. With regards to my earlier comment I should have mentioned that the reason why Edward Jeffries had expressways built that lead out of Detroit to the suburbs is because there simply wasn't any more space to build new automotive plants in Detroit; so they had them built in the suburbs where there was more land to construct the automotive plants.
An elderly Jewish shoemaker was stomped to death, only 130 pounds about 5'6, he had no chance, what about his life? His life mattered.
nah. he ain't no black man ya dig? why no one gave a shit. gotta be black fam.
@@Rao665 fuck you
Yes. His life matters..
Unfortunately...Detroit will NEVER recover from this one hot week in July in ‘67
His ancestors owned and financed the slave boats, as well as the slave trading markets. Karma is a you-know-what.
GOD bless my hometown. I LOVE YOU DETROIT.
Yes!
I miss Detroit. I'm in NYC now. Great memories.
My mom was in the hospital in Flint delivering me during the riots. She often tells the story of the angst of watching this unfold on TV.
I lived in the Dexter Elmhurst area and the Most Vivid memory I have of the riots was My Grandmother Hanging up clothes in the backyard while National Guardsmen with dogs were patrolling the ally in the background, if I had a Camera it would have made the Cover of Life Magazine!
Wow, so I was 9yrs old an I don't remember this at all, partly because my mom died that year an the same month when this all broke out!
Lena sorry about your loss
no, you wouldnt remember it.... you had far bigger things to think about.
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Oh I remember it, I was 7 and lived in Southfield near 8 mile and my mom worked night shift at the post office and had to be escorted in and out by police! We had a neighbor that got me and my sister scared about it coming to our neighborhood. Thank god I didn’t live closer to it!
@@txgal6855 you moved to Texas?
Wow, we lived on LaSalle BLVD bet. Gladstone and Blaine. I was six years old, I remember we had to stay low to the floor at all times due to gunfire from those troops as well as snipers. My aunt lived 4 blocks down from us on the corner of Virginia Pk. Her windows were shot out, and there were bullet holes in the front of her house. We were terrified!! 😥😥😥
Andrea Newsome finally someone that's not just talking crap you were actually there
Andrea Newsome I can't imagine how scary it was
Why didn't you go to the basement?
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Sorry you went thru that!
Rioting doesn't benefit anyone. This is proof.
Holding hands marching down the street don't either MLK death proved that
Kevin Wolfe but he got results though, what did the riots get out of this?
It’s was so sad what happened in Detroit in 67
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See your part of the problem now commie piece of shit
@@Mz_Tingley huh ? Lol
We just had a repeat. 🙁
Yep history is repeating itself
Well, they want to keep those Democrats. When Democrats go away- trouble goes away.
@chaznonya4 true.
He said, we want the same like everybody else?!! What’s so difficult?
The difficult is that now we have no slavery, no excuse, and you have the opportunity like everybody else, you can go to school, get loans, work anywhere.....etc....etc, but you never change as Society, as an individual, the way you think , the way you behave....etc...etc.
Societies that always change for better, live with peace, and want prosperity will never accept to live with societies that always live in destructive manner, that never change for the better always stays the same like a lifeless rock. God is one who never changes and everything must change and accept diversity, you don’t change and you don’t accept diversity, because no one can live with you with peace or prosper, this is a punishment from God. Look at all the different societies that came to this country, they are successful as an individual and as society, except you.
This will never change anywhere in the world unless you change within yourself as an individual, and especially as a Society.
They may not have slavery anymore, but they sure as hell have racism, when you have an entire country born out of racial slavery, for centuries, it tends to influence how their historical oppressors, the whites, view them, and often more than not, it was overwhelmingly racist to the core. Not to mention, they pass this belief down to their kids, who then do it to theirs. This racism, tends to influence the overall culture and government policies as a result. It's not their fault, they want everything that everyone else wants, dignity, equality, self determination, but how can they get that, when they live in a society, primarily governed and favorable to their oppressors.
@@davidmartinez688💯💯💯💯
You just wrote a whole paragraph on 🐂 💩systemic racism exist to this very day not so smooth sailing for black folks smart 🤡guy .
You have to be white to write ✍️ this 🐂 💩
Just like today, they destroyed their own neighborhoods, they looted their own businesses. Does that make sense? It never has and whether or not they had a reason for it, their reason was mute after the destructive behavior.
Yeah they destroyed their own neighborhood just for the heck of it, just for fun. White were so nice to them in 1967 and treated them with respect, I don't know why they revolted (*sarcasm off*)
Bill Gates - Oh yes .... and after all, we ALL know that the best way to get that well deserved respect is to riot and loot your own neighborhood. I just don't understand how anybody can argue against these riots, the results have been so promising. yep!!! sarcasm!!!
You suck as a person
Your kids probably hate you
Shoot at police, expect to be shot at.
Minneapolis 2020
Minneapolis 2020 riots was nothing compared to The Detroit riots of 67
@@mrq2044 during the riots of 1967 the riots remained in Detroit. The Minneapolis riots spread to all parts of the world.
@@dinamule3073 But the aftermath of Detroit in 67 and L.A in 92 was way worse than what happened in Minneapolis
@@dinamule3073no. It's all campaigning by thug democrats. Jim Jones Democrats
And that disgusting criminal Geo Floyd was responsible!
If we want real progress we need to honestly look at the reason why it even started. The police raided a party to arrest a few seriously violent criminals. The community decided to react to that in the worst possible way. And still we have no real acknowledgement of the horribly flawed mentality that continues to haunt the black community decades later. It's sad. We just cannot have that debate. It's off limits and so the nonsense will continue until the black community owns it own problems.
Thay start riots if you kill or lock up their top drug dealer supplier no lie lol
R T They raised it because it was an illegal after hours club and the party was to welcome home Vietnam vets not criminals moron! Built up tension was the cause not some party!
How can a person hand someone a fixed deck then ask why they can't win?
The community had a legitimate beef against police brutality. Once the looting, burning, and mayhem started they surrendered that legitimacy. Those shopkeepers had nothing to do with police misconduct. The police stood by and allowed the looting and arson to happen. Politicians gave amnesty to the rioters. Is it any wonder why Detroit was abandoned?
@@garybohr9857 You're right. Play stupid games win stupid prizes.
Very few black people think this is the correct way to fix problems. Believe me many of them feared for their lives, business , property
Thats why Africa is a shining light of rule of law, respect of women's reproductive Rights , and respect for property.
That's not true. The hood mentality dominates the majority. The evidence can be seen by just looking at the core values of the average black community from state to state, or even natuon to nation. You are trying to make the exceptions out to be the rule. Only the libtards will believe that lie.
Well no shit.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Its won't ever change. The heart of the white man hasn't change he's the problem. I can't see how y'all can't see that. That's what it always will be cause this is not black people home we not living we surviving
My father always told me that exact same thing, as a ten year old I was confused but not now! I now say the same thing he did!!
That's the year my parents fled there.
Help us rebuild
Its not Iraq
@@Mz_Tingley it’s worse
@@Mz_Tingley Go to rehab already!
Great show. Nice work by Huel, Deb, Matt and Keith.
rob wolchek-Investigative News Reporter great report, great seeing Amyre interviewed.
"Rosa Parks Blvd"? Rosa Parks didn't burn the bus.
Help us rebuild
This happened a few months after I was born. But for many generations after it happened the elderly talked about it. None of the burning of bldings happened in my area I grew up in.
The saddest part is the riots sparked due to frustrations (right or wrong), and all it did was make things orders of magnitudes worse than it ever was before. Glad to see Detroit is getting better, but it will never be back to pre 67.
I read that Detroit was literally one of the richest cities in the USA, in other words one of the richest cities in the whole world within living memory.
To fall from such a high position to where Detroit is today is almost unbelievable.
Rioting might release anger and frustration but the riots spelt the end of a great world class city, the white taxpayers fled the violence and crime and the major corporations won't invest in a high crime dangerous place, so the city tax base was slashed and no city can prosper without investment and tax revenue.
You lose police, fire department, public schools, public transport, street cleaning, libraries, parks, hospitals, infrastructure etc.
It was considered the mecca of the west
Equal opportunity 👍
That's many American cities today. Someone stated recently, America is going to be a bunch of Haiti's.
The manufacturing was the heart of Detroit and it had been leaving the city since the 1920s. The factories were located around residential areas, so it wasn’t efficient for trucks to go to and from the factories. Labor costs were high, by the 70s regulatory costs were high. It was the high labor costs that made the standard of living so high. But companies are always looking for lower labor costs. Then Detroit implemented an income tax in 1962 which always makes people question whether they want to stay somewhere. By 67 the factories had started moving out side of the city limits, then to rural areas then to the south and finally to Mexico and now China. That was the heart of Detroit. Without jobs there was no reason to stay in a place where you could get killed going to the store. People who can move away from violence to a place with better job prospects are going to leave.
Really was, had the best public schools, best median home income,
Who you think supported Jim crow laws in the south, senator Albert Arnold Gore Father of Al Gore.
@D Gh who said I support democrats.
My husband & me with our 1 year old were there visiting my families that still lived in Detroit. When the riot broke out. we lived over in an almost all white area near Green & Vernors. Mom & I had moved to Ohio after she remarried after my Dad had passed away. Did not see any of it except on the news. It was scary because we could still hear some shooting. We saw Police having to close all corner stores that sold liquor.
A new lady who lived this she drove out of Detroit she left she remembered that so clearly she told me the story and how sad that was Detroit has really died this very day it's dyed
A boyfriend and I were coming off Bell Isle and all of a sudden we had2 flat tires we stopped at a gas station and I called my sister in Fraser Michigan. North of Detroit to let her know I’d be late. she yelled “ get home ! A riot has started!”
50yrs later and nobody still want to tell the truth why the 1967 uprising started..smh
Jeanetta Johnson
So why don't you tell your version of the story?
@OceanBlue all radical uprisings tend to consist of these things, even during the American revolution, people would commit acts of violence against loyalists and tax collectors and loot shops. Loyalists would get beaten for expressing their support for the crown and tax collectors tarred and feathered for doing their jobs, does that make our revolution any better? Sure it was for different reasons like government suppression and taxation by the monarchy, however, who's to say that blacks weren't suppressed by a bigoted, corrupt system? They faced constant racial attacks and suppression by the police, the government's racial policies, racist whites, who's to say their struggle, their fight, isn't righteous or worthy of the title of "revolution".
@@davidmartinez688Excellent points.
My grandfather lived in Detroit when all this happen
I was living on Harned off of E Outer Dr. It was a very strange summer that we experienced in ’67.
Im from 85 and was interested in history, and I can only imagine how those people was feeling those days
But yeah we didn't know better at that time. Hopefully it never have to happen again no where on this globe.
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Frustration.. that's called a race riot, not an uprising.
I was quite young at a just six to understand how the riot impacted my community near Conner and Gratiot. However over the subsequent decade, I grew up in a declining neighborhood where violence became the dominant force. We finally caved and moved closer to Morang and Kelly (Denby HS area). I have always been saddened by the loss of that part of my childhood.
My father was there in 1967 with the Windsor Fire-fighters that help Detroit battle the Fires, I was 6 years old at the time
The two most dangerous streets in any City in America almost always it seems to be Rosa Park and Martin Luther King Boulevard, Street, Road Exedra Exedra. One would think those would be the most peaceful places those are two pretty big names and images to live up to for any American. But apparently not
Evil cannot prosper.
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Martin Luther king Jr park in Rochester ny just had mass shooting. Bc it was all democrats, nobody cares.
The rioters(criminals) got what they wanted. The police were villainized and then the crime rate sky rocketed. Then the city died.
Summer of 2020 same thing.
were those privately owned homes , or were they renting?
I Was 13 Years Old When The '67 Riots Happened In Detroit Michigan!!! But I Remember It Like It Was Yesterday!!!✝️✝️🛐🛐😇🌟🤗🙏🙏🙏🇨🇦🇬🇧🇮🇱♾️🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🗽🦅❤️❤️❤️‼️
I lived through it
Peaceful protesting
Very interesting Very sad What was gained? It was great to see grandma on her porch So sad to see the complete emptiness and loss of people Seeing John Conyers who's still around and has been during the entire collapse His wife did her bid in jail with her arrogant self Her school board performances were legendary
Why burn your own shit up?
Nihilism ...and the CIA were probably PAID to snipe & burn
@@brucebailey2414they don’t own the the city. But they should have drove out to the suburbs and burned their shit the fuck up.
In 1950, not adjusted for inflation businesses within the Detroit borders brought in $10 billion in revenue. In 1973 a teacher was beat to death at Pershing High School, 7 Mile & Ryan which by 1973 the area Pershing is in dramatically changed in just six years and was 5.5 miles away from 12th & Clairmont.
Just read about black jack pershihigh school. It's a hell hole. But good dlfor democrats.
I was there. We lived off Woodward or Jefferson near the Roostertail
Sorry lady, nothing compare to Beirut war! Don't confuse a big war of blood shed to this. Get your facts right! 19:57
Yes, this is tragic, but bombs and explosions, and extreme blood shed isn't compare to this!
Fit n Fab who is talking about Beirut,the Middle East or Arabs and their constant never ending wars.this is America we are talking about.
My Family was there Taylor& 12street/ My Uncle was A Motorcyclist Officer Hooks...
I was 5 years old and remember seeing the national guard rolling down Gratiot ave. only 2 blocks from our house near 6 mile. Was a scary time being that young.
I'm from the Eastside of Detroit...Lemay between Kercheval & Vernor. There were 2 individuals that were shot in our alley during the riot (Sunday July 23-Friday July 28, 1967). Although the 101st airborne & National Guard were there...we still went down to Plum St. A few pieces of jewelry I'd gotten from there I still have. They're extremely unique & unlike anything I've ever seen since that time. From that time until now I've lived in Detroit 3 separate times (in between NY, Houston & New Orleans. I love Detroit ❤️
I lived on Montclair & Gothe, I was 13 & our Daddy was in Herman Keifer during those horrible days, but our Neighboods came back, after the Crack Removal of the Black Family ( by Design) then our neighborhoods became blighted and we've yet to come back 😢
Oh lemay street did you know of a church that was on the corner of lemay and East Vernor
We're these actions under state law Constutional. I would like to know John Barnett revisited January 2024
I was about 4 and can still remember my Daddy saying something about him shooting anybody coming after us.
I live in Detroit during the riots I was even years old my dad took two days off work my dad never miss work but the day of the riots starting my dad called me in the hose made me stay in the basement well he sat in the middle of the house were he had a clear view of the front and back door of our house with a gun on the table I was scared and didn't understand I do now I hope and pray that never happen again
My brother and I grew up in the suburbs. In a citu call East Detroit. We were 9 and 10 years old. We were told to stay off Gratiot Ave.and to stay in front of the house as we rode our bikes. 😮
wow, I remember your father. Back when reporting was good! Hope he is still doing well!
Yes and when you drove through those neighborhoods it looked like a miniature war zone which never rebuilt itself.
Some neighbours of ours crossed the border that first morning were going to the Zoo with their kids.They ended up stuck and had to drive around Detroit and crossing back across the border further up.
Cass tech was a world class school
Identify the common central characteristics of event the compare it with events in history and the rest of the world. How they acted in Detroit is how they have acted everywhere there is a large black diaspora. There were riots in ww2 when GIs were together in the military. In the Korean war too. It's how they act in Baltimore, Paris, LA, Johannesburg, Cape town, Philadelphia, Dallas and Ferguson. This is who they are. They ALWAYS consider themselves to be victims. What they say in Detroit is what they say in capetown and everywhere else. THAT IS THE COMMON THREAD.
Correct.
YOU MUST BE REALLY FUCKING BAD AT HISTORY FOR CHERRY PICKING THE RIOTS AND REVOLTS, WITHOUT BOTHERING TO CONSIDER WHAT CAUSED THEM TO DO IT, THE REASON WHY THEY DO IT IS BECAUSE THEY HAVE A HISTORY OF BEING RACIALLY SUPPRESSED BY EUROPEAN WHITES, WHETHER IT BE IN AMERICA OR EUROPE OR BRITISH-COLONIZED SOUTH AFRICA, ALL OF WHICH HAD RACIAL POLICIES THAT DEEMED THEM INFERIOR AND STRIPPED THEM OF BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGNITY, YOU FUCKING TWAT, THERE WAS APARTHEID IN SOUTH AFRICA WHICH, JUST LIKE JIM CROW IN AMERICA, CONSISTED OF RACIST LAWS OR POLICIES THAT WOULD LEAD OUTRIGHT RACIAL OPPRESSION OR TO FAVORITISM OF THEIR WHITE COUNTERPARTS, YOU FUCKING GALAXY BRAINED CRETIN
Why can't these news people step up and tell the truth?I love how they interpret this event and twist it anyway they want.
Truth!
So easy to destroy something that doesn't belong to you.
True and now they are stuck living in a nasty run down place.At the time they thought that’ll show them. They only hurt themselves and decedents stuck there
eight commercials in the first fifteen minutes shame,shame,shame...the first one was 30 seconds into it...
My uncle is at 20:43 aaron killen
Unfortunately, Detroit will NEVER recover from that one hot week in July of ‘67!
Has any city recovered from this level of rioting?
@@thrgg it could if the people were unified and had a goal in mind to fix their city.
But cities like Detroit aren't ran by people who wanna bring one another together. Just more career politicians who care about the next election rather then the next school year :/
It should be a utopia now all those bad racist people left. The democrats have had their run of the place.
Should have interviewed the men and woman reporters who were shown literally risking their lives covering the story. Would have been interesting to hear what those days were like. As least some were given credit.
LSAT911.ORG most likely either too old or dead
Not true. Know 2 of them that could and would have done it. And Virg actually worked with 1 of them....
*Huel
It's a "rebellion" you if didn't lose your home or business, or don't give a damn about maintaining a civilized society.
I am canadian and my father in 1967 was an Esso bulk gas agent in a small town south of Calgary in southern Alberta in Western Canada...selling gas and fertilizer to local farmers..in 1967 Esso awarded my dad a brand new gas tanker truck to do his job but he had to pick it up in Detroit from the GM plant...so my parents decided to do that and combine it with a summer holiday to Montreal for expo 67....so you imagine a full canadian small town family mom dad 2 kids and the family dog in a wood panelled station wagon rolling into Detroit and finding ourselves right smack in the Detroit riots! I was 4 yrs old but i remember when father running red lights so as to avoid stopping ...and i remember when we finally made it to the GM planet rolling up to the closed gates and they had a machine gun post there and the GM security guards going "who the hell are you people>" being absolutely floored by this station wagon of a white canadian family rolling up to them while Detroit burned! haha
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I should add that after we got that big brand new gas tanker we carried on to Montreal to see Expo 67 but when going back west to Calgary on the 401 between Montreal and Toronto the axle on that brand new gas tanker broke in half sending my dad and i ( brothers and mother driving station wagon ) in the tanker spinning out of control - we drove over a couple of small cars and then rolled down an exit detour hilll about a dozen times before coming to a stop blocking that exit ....why my dad never sued the shit out of GM and Esso for that happening i never figured out....tanker destroyed and i was scared of being in a vehicle for years after that - yeah the summer of 1967 i still live with every day
Wow. What terrible luck. I'm glad you survived it all.
The Most Vivid memory I have of the riots was My Grandmother Hanging up clothes in the backyard while National Guardsmen with dogs were patrolling the ally in the background, if I had a Camera it would have made the Cover of Life Magazine!
Hello may I use parts of this video tell the story of this riot. I lived during those days there.
You will find my brother
Wherever people live together
Tired of poverty despair
I was 9 years old in 1967, living at 12th and Temple. Nearly 60 years after the looting and burning, the area is still a 'food desert'. Go figure.
I lived on the east side Dickenson anbd jefferson and the same thing
I was 3 years old it's funny how I remember that day I had just turned three years old in may of that year !
Great report!
Great report
Thanks David - and thanks for watching
FOX 2 News glad these archive films exist
Why doesn’t anyone report on what lead up to the riots? Or what happened to escalate it all the way to calling the national guard in and bringing tanks and snipers?
You tell us
I lived at 1036 Holbrook I was 7 years old I got my frist whooping during the riot
went out Exactly like Newark, NJ
Cant they just tell the people the ugly true about what kicked this riot off?i pretty clear from the casualties and how they died what caused this riot.
Please tell
No one should have a job cuz of their color,that goes for any race!!the qualified PERSON should get the job,if it turns out u end up with 5 white guys on ur crew so be it,as long as u picked the right person no one should feel obligated to hire someone just because u might not have 1 black person in ur company and it goes the same for a black led company they shouldn't have to hire a white guy just because??even tho I don't think there's usually that issue,it seems to mostly work one way!!
The most violent cities in America 2023- 1) St Louis 2) DETROIT 3) Baltimore 4) Memphis and the list goes on. Not much has changed in 60 years.
Every city with black population 😂. These people can't be happy
Hey, the guy at 16:57 fussing about being harassed by cops...my hippie big brother got pulled over regularly (in his VW Beetle) and frisked for no reason usually. One time it was because he had no wiper blades on his car, although it was summer in San Francisco and you certainly didn't need wiper blades in June.
Paula Harris Baca stupid, don't you use wipers to clear fog from your windshield?
He wasn’t beaten though? Or called racial slurs, now was he?
Did the cops beat the crap out of your hippie big brother,paula?
Those suckers burned Detroit down!😡🤬
18:00 what does that have to do with shutting down the party? you know, when those jobs moved overseas...that was for all colors. that didn't solely affect black people.
The government definitely did this shit 🤦🏽♂️
Definitely just like they always do shit crazy
Absolutely
you can make a difference, without the fuckin guns...
i worked in detroit at that time.
I was out in Los Angeles in the 60’s, that riot was bad too.
White flight!
"Burning floor fell in on the looters........" - couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of "people"....Glad to see justice prevailed.
I always laugh when I see the footage of the guys actually using a Browning M2 in the streets of Detroit. I mean driving around in an APC with one on top? Sure. But actually racking a belt and opening up on a building?
If there’s another time when that has ever happened in an Urban Environment In America please let me know.