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Police officers accompany National Guardsmen as they jump from their transport vehicle onto Linwood Avenue, Detroit. In the background one can see burning businesses and a police blockade. Photographer's Note: "National Guardsmen enter the Riot area.…

Violence took different forms across the city. Police raided the Algiers Motel on Woodward Avenue looking for rumored snipers. While questioning motel guests, police killed 3 Black men in the hotel, beat 9 others, and found no snipers. This became…

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…

National Guardsmen are pinned down by gunfire at the McGraw police station in Detroit's 6th precinct. See map of incidents to learn more about reports of sniper fire in the City.

Infantrymen of the 82nd Airborne Division and members of the Detroit Police Department stand guard at E. Grand Boulevard.

Donors fill Red Cross headquarters in downtown Detroit as they try to replenish the blood supply for Detroit during the Civil Unrest of 1967.

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…

A flood of prisoners are released from the County Jail and loaded onto a waiting bus as National Guardsmen and Police look on.

Three National Guardsmen patrol the corner of Hazelwood and Linwood with weapons drawn as residents from the neighborhood look on with a mixture of amusement and anger.

Detroit Edison workers attempt to restore power to an area destroyed by fire around Linwood Street on Detroit's West Side.

National Guardsmen watch for snipers as members of the Detroit Fire Department battle a fire during the civil unrest of 1967.

Detroit’s Civil Unrest had captured the attention of the nation. Mayor Jerome Cavanagh appeared on Meet the Press on July 30 to defend his leadership during the previous week. At left is Edwin Newman, moderator of the panel discussion.