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Picketers on Wayne State University’s campus protesting, among other things, open housing in Detroit, October 12, 1967.

Protesters outside the Veterans Memorial Building where a conference addressing the needs of the nation’s poor, attended by President Jimmy Carter, was taking place. 1977.

The defendants in the Algiers Motel Incident trial. Three police officers and a private security guard (second from left), after their acquittal by an all-white jury on federal conspiracy charges. February 25, 1970.

Mayor Coleman Young in front of the under-construction Renaissance Center. June 20, 1975.

Violence erupts during demonstration by Nazi group in Kennedy Square. August 22, 1981.

Image of Coleman Young being sworn in. January 2, 1974.

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…

Fire in the Livernois-Fenkell area. July 29, 1975.

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.

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.

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…

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.