Detroit Riot of 1967, series of violent confrontations between residents of predominantly African American neighbourhoods of Detroit and the city’s police department that began on July 23, 1967, and lasted five days. What started as a sensational spree of rapes and killings led, eventually, to a three-day explosion of violence, forever linking together the fantastical stuff of pulp novels with the real and concrete problems of race in America. The 1967 Detroit riots were one of the most violent and costliest riots in the United States. Of the 159 American riots that took place in 1967, perhaps none began more luridly than Cincinnati’s Avondale riot. In the summer of 1967, Atlanta Journal reporter Michael Palmer went undercover as a hippie. The 1967 Detroit Riots were among the most violent and destructive riots in U.S. history. John Smith, an African American cab driver for the Safety Cab Company, was arrested on Wednesday July 12 when he drove his taxi around a police car and double-parked on 15th Avenue. Both were spurred by police-involved shootings of black people, he said. At right is a burned out building from the early morning riot… In 1966, two race riots in Atlanta came after two black men were shot, one by an Atlanta policeman and the other by a white passing motorist. One killed, three injured. 1967 – Winston-Salem 1967 race riot, November 2–4, 1967 (Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States) 1967 – Hong Kong 1967 riots ( Hong Kong ) 1968 – 1968 Mauritian riots Pre-Independence Mauritius racial riots January 1968 started at Plaine Verte, Port … 1967 – Long Hot Summer of 1967 refers to a year in which 159 race riots erupted across the United States, including: 1967 – Belle Isle riot, April 30, Detroit, Michigan 1967 – Roxbury riot… They started by a police raid on the unlicensed bar, and by the time they ended, 43 people were dead, 342 injured, thousands of arrested, and over 1400 buildings had been burned. By the time the bloodshed, burning and looting ended after … Atlanta, Ga., June 17 through 20—Four days of disorder followed arrest of Stokely Carmichael. Roanoke, Va. , June 23—A near-riot … The riot resulted in the deaths of 43 people, including 33 African Americans and 10 whites. The Newark Riot of 1967 which took place in Newark, New Jersey from July 12 through July 17, 1967, was sparked by a display of police brutality. Hobson pointed to protests in Atlanta’s Summerhill neighborhood in 1966 and in the Dixie Hill neighborhood in 1967. One killed, three injured. Tampa riot police, almost aim-in-arm, walk down Central Avenue in the riot area near downtown Tampa at dusk, June 12, 1967, warning all residents in the predominantly black area to stay off the street and in their homes.