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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.

National Guardsmen at the Herman Kiefer Command Post care for children separated from their families during an outbreak of gunfire.

Caption reads: "GUARD LEAVES, BUT SORROW STAYS- Some Michigan National Guard equipment rolls out of Detroit Tuesday after Civil Unrest subsided, but a woman weeps quietly as she heads for a funeral. Tanya Lynn Blanding, 4, was killed, apparently by a…

An unseen Detroit Police Officer prepares to arrest four African American men, Detroit, Michigan. In the foreground, a National Guardsman trains his rifle on the suspects.

National guardsman Gary Ciko of Hamtramck watches for snipers as buildings burn on Linwood Street.

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.…

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.

Municipal/State/Federal Employees, an Unemployment Office in Detroit. Undated.

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

A flyer created in 1942 by white residents asks for assistance from people outside their neighborhood at Nevada and Fenelon to keep Black residents from moving into the Sojourner Truth Housing Project in Detroit, Michigan.

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

Katrina Bryant, 2, holds her mother’s finger and drinks a carton of milk outside of Grace Episcopal Church. She and her mother received assistance from the church’s “food station” which was established to feed families made homeless or displaced…