Police Commissioner Ray Girardin compiled a list of items that he felt should be purchased to enable the Detroit Police Department to better respond to Civil Unrest. This report was dated October 24, 1967 and delivered to the Detroit Common Council. Jerome Cavanagh Papers, Box 333.
“Guidelines for a Community or Statewide Police Recruiting Campaign to Recruit Minority Officers” booklet. c. 1960s. Source: Coleman A. Young Papers, Box 13, folder 10.
This political cartoon appeared in an issue of the UAW Education Department’s publication Ammunition. c. 1940s. Walter P. Reuther Vertical Files Collection, Box 128.
The Detroit Commission on Community Relations Subcommittee on Police-Community Relations provides an overview of recruitment reforms via meeting minutes. October 10, 1966. Detroit Commission on Community Relations/Human Rights Department Records, Part 3, Box 68, Folder 20. Click the image to read the full document.
The Freedom Now Party, representing an element of Black nationalist political thought and theory, outlines its platform for the upcoming 1964 elections. September 28, 1964. Ernest Smith Papers, Box 1.
A report provides statistics comparing white and non-white men in 1950 and 1960 in various occupations in Detroit. May 1963. NAACP Detroit Branch Records, Part 2, Box 10, Folder 5. Click the image to read the selected pages from the report.
A report provides statistics comparing white and non-white men in 1950 and 1960 in various occupations in Detroit. May 1963. NAACP Detroit Branch Records, Part 2, Box 10, Folder 5.
A report provides statistics comparing white and non-white men in 1950 and 1960 in various occupations in Detroit. May 1963. NAACP Detroit Branch Records, Part 2, Box 10, Folder 5.
Three children look on as movers from Russell’s Moving and Storage unload furniture belonging to one of the first Black families to move into the Sojourner Truth Housing Project.
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 housing project.
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 pictures of the scene.
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 fire.
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 catching the attention of snipers.
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 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 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 earlier sniper attack but found nothing.
