Violence in the Model City : the Cavanagh administration, race relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967, None by Fine, Sidney, 1920-2009, None instant download

Violence in the Model City : the Cavanagh administration, race relations, and the Detroit Riot of 1967, None by Fine, Sidney, 1920-2009, None instant download

1 online resource (x, 648, [8] pages of plates) :, On July 23, 1967, the Detroit police raided a blind pig (after-hours drinking establishment), touching off the most destructive urban riot of the 1960s. It took the U.S. Army, the Michigan National Guard, the Michigan State Police, and the Detroit police department - 17,000 men - more than a week to restore order. When all was done, the riot had claimed 43 lives (mostly Black) and resulted in nearly 700 injuries. Over 7,000 individuals were arrested, with property damage estimates over 75 million. Yet, Detroit had been lauded nationally as a \"\"model city\"\" in the governance of a la, Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-621) and index, I. \"\"Phooie on Louie\"\"; II. The Model City; III. The \"\"Divided City\"\"; IV. Detroit's War on Poverty; V. \"\"The Single Most Important Problem\"\": Police-Community Relations; VI. \"\"The Riot That Didn't Happen\"\"; VII. \"\"A Little Trouble on Twelfth Street\"\": July 23, 1967; VIII. \"\"They Have Lost All Control in Detroit\"\": July 24, 1967; IX. \"\"Law and Order Have Been Restored to Detroit\"\": July 25-August 2, 1967; Illustrations; X. Rioters and Judges; XI. \"\"A Night of Horror and Murder\"\"; XII. \"\"The Worst Civil Disorder\"\"; XIII. \"\"A Rough Community Division of Labor\"\", XIV. Rioters, Counterrioters, and the Noninvolved XV. The Meaning of Violence; XVI. The Polarized Community; XVII. The Law Enforcement Response; XVIII. The Ameliorative Response; XIX. \"\"God Help Our City\"\"; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index, Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002, digitized 2011