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A map constructed using data from the Jerome P. Cavanagh Papers and the Detroit Commission on Community Relations Office Records at the Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs

A man, recently emerged from a parked car on Blaine, is stopped before entering his apartment building on the corner of Blaine and Byron, the entrance to the Kiefer Hospital command post. Officers searched the man in hopes of finding evidence from an…

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

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.

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.

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

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

Detroit Police officer Crear Mitchell puts a bayonet on his rifle in preparation for patrol near 12th and Clairmount on the first day of the Unrest. He wears a black stocking cap over his white helmet, presumably to prevent its reflection from…

A man forcibly removes a woman from a burning building during the 1967 Civil Unrest. The unidentified woman was screaming 'Mother, mother,' while being carried away from the flames. It is unknown if her mother was in the building at the time of the…

12th Street descends into chaos on the first day of the Civil Unrest of 1967. At rear, center, the Blind Pig, whose raid by police officers sparked the conflict, can be seen behind the Economy Printing sign. In the distance a photographer snaps…

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…