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Paratrooper Mack C. Seyburn, of Florida, stands on guard to prevent looting in the businesses on Detroit’s East Side.

Caption on the back of the photograph reads: “Three year old Thomas Allen stands in the ruins of his home on Detroit’s east side after it was burned to the ground in the riots that hit this City 7/23. Little Thomas’ bewildered appearance is a symbol…

The New Detroit Committee’s first official group portrait, taken at Wayne State University in October 1967.

Telegram message sent to Councilman Mel Ravitz from various business, political, and cultural leaders supporting the Fair Housing Ordinance. November 20, 1967. Source: Mel Ravitz Papers. Box 15, folder 1.

This document represents a summary of a Detroit Police Department incident report relating to the raid at a "blind pig," or unlicensed bar. This event is often cited as the beginning of Detroit's 1967 Civil Unrest.

Material located in box 398,…

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

"Statistics on Detroit Riot 1967," Jerome P. Cavanagh Papers, Box 393, folder 7.

A statement from Louis Rosenzweig of the Michigan Fair Employment Practices Commission maintaining that the overwhelmingly largest number and percentage of claims brought before it are race-related, although discrimination due to religion and…

A map of the Detroit expressway system as featured in the souvenir pamphlet presented to attendees of the ground breaking ceremony for the Walter P. Chrysler Expressway. Souvenir booklet, January 30, 1959. Carl Almblad Papers, Box 8, Folder 56.

Front cover of the souvenir pamphlet presented to attendees of the ceremony where the Walter P. Chrysler Expressway broke ground for what was billed as “the most complex highway engineering project ever attempted in the City of Detroit." Attendees of…

Memoranda from Harold J. Bellamy to Richard Strichartz summarizing several social and demographic studies for the City of Detroit Mayor's Committee for Community Renewal.. A notable contribution is a 1964 study conducted by Greenleigh…

A sketch outlining a proposed "early warning" system for the Detroit Commission on Community Relations to identify areas of potential civil unrest in the city. May 1, 1967. Detroit Commission on Community Relations (DCCR)/Human Rights Department…