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Demonstration in Detroit protesting the S.T.R.E.S.S. (Stop the Robberies and Enjoy Safe Streets) program.
Demonstration in Detroit protesting the S.T.R.E.S.S. (Stop the Robberies and Enjoy Safe Streets) program. A police unit established in 1971 to address street crime, S.T.R.E.S.S. was highly controversial. Citizens accused S.T.R.E.S.S. of promoting…
Riots; Detroit; Livernois-Fenkell area
Fire in the Livernois-Fenkell area. July 29, 1975.
Municipal/State/Federal Employees, Unemployment Office, Detroit, Michigan
Municipal/State/Federal Employees, an Unemployment Office in Detroit. Undated.
Riots: Detroit: Sojourner Truth Housing Project.
A police officer drags a Black man and woman away during an altercation following the attempted integration of the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan in 1942.
Riots: Detroit: Sojourner Truth Housing Project.
A bloodied Black man is forcibly led away from home by uniformed police officers with nightsticks during a 1942 altercation at the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan.
Riot: Detroit: Sojourner Truth Housing Project; Street scenes.
Detroit Police attempt to disperse a crowd of white men, some armed with bats, from the area surrounding the Sojourner Truth Housing Project. The men wanted to keep their neighborhood segregated from the Black families moving into an adjacent war…
Flyer, Sojourner Truth Housing Project, 1942.
A flyer created in 1942 by white residents asks for assistance from people outside their neighborhood at Nevada and Fenelon to keep Black residents from moving into the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan.
Overturned car on fire during the 1943 race riot.
Street cars and automobiles barely escape damage as a fire ball erupts from a car tipped over by a mob during the 1943 Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan.
Riots: Detroit: Race Riots, 1943. June 21, 1943. Burning & Wrecked Autos. Rioters Running from Tear Gas. Burning Car on Woodward near Stimpson.
A group of young white men turn a car on its side in front of a White Tower Hamburger restaurant during the 1943 Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan.
Civil Rights, Demonstrations, "March to Freedom," Detroit, 1963.
Reverend Albert Cleage (later Jaramogi Abebe Agyeman), a prominent Detroit-based activist, exhibited dimensions of Black nationalism through a number of associations. Here, Cleage addresses the audience at Cobo Hall following the “Walk to Freedom”…
Nation of Islam, Malcolm X, Meetings, Wayne State, 1963.
Students listen to Malcolm X speak in Wayne State University’s State Hall in Detroit, Michigan about the Nation of Islam, warning that, “We are not afraid to go to jail or afraid to take the life of those who take our life. We believe in fair…
Police Department; Tactical Mobile Unit. - In action when dispatched to near riot at Belle Isle.
Officers from the Detroit Police Department Tactical Mobile Unit are dispatched to Belle Isle.