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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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…

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”…

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.

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.