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Uniformed police officers "pat down" a man leaned up against a police car at Belle Isle in Detroit, Michigan.

Police outside the Vernor Street Station club a demonstrator protesting the fatal shooting of Kenneth Evans, a white youth.

A crowd protests the fatal shooting of a Black woman by Detroit Police.

Sponsored by the Citizens Committee for Equal Opportunity and the Virginia Park Citizens Committee, a jobs fair, called the “Jobs Now! Conference,” is held at Hutchins Junior High School, near the place where Detroit’s Civil Unrest will erupt exactly…

Members and supporters of the NAACP picket outside of the Open Occupancy Hearing at Cobo Hall, Detroit, Michigan.

Members of the NAACP’s Housing Committee create signs in the offices of the Detroit Branch for use in a future demonstration.

Protesters, including Detroit residents, gather in Lansing, Michigan for an unemployment march.

A view of the Chrysler Freeway construction project in Detroit, Michigan, looking east from the roof of the City-County Building.

The inside of a unit at the Jeffries Homes public housing project in Detroit, Michigan.

Wartime housing units at the Oakdale Gardens Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan at 8 Mile Road and Wyoming.

Firefighters attempt to extinguish a car set on fire on Woodward Avenue at Charlotte Street during the 1943 Race Riot in Detroit, Michigan.

Three children look on as movers from Russell’s Moving and Storage unload furniture belonging to one of the first Black families to move into the Sojourner Truth Housing Project.