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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.

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”…

Officers from the Detroit Police Department Tactical Mobile Unit are dispatched to Belle Isle.

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.

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

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.