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detroit riot of 1967  

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  • The 1967 Detroit riot marked a point in U.S. history at which racial tensions between African Americans and Whites reached deadly proportions. Prior to the 1967 riot, allegations of police brutality, racial tension, and racial discrimination prompted a string of racial riots, including the riots in Rochester and Philadelphia in 1954 and in the Watts residential district of Los Angeles in 1965. [Source: Encyclopedia of Race and Crime; Detroit Riot of 1967]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-V5JLZCT4-4

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