Angela Smith
Angela Smith recalls being a child and witnessing looting and later National Guardsmen in Detroit in July of 1967.
Detroit Historical Society
03/13/2016
Detroit Historical Society
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Angelo Sherman
A painting and explanation from Angelo Sherman who was a child in 1967.
Detroit Historical Society
08/26/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Anita Gibbs
Anita Gibbs was a child in 1967 and remembers the atmosphere and confusion of the city while the police searched her house.
Detroit Historical Society
09/30/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Anita Hadley, July 5th, 2016
In this interview, Hadley discusses her childhood in Detroit, and her feeling of safety within the city. She then discusses her experience during the unrest, and how her entire family was fearful for their safety. She emphasizes that many of the shops and stores she enjoyed visiting as a child were burned to the ground and never rebuilt. She also explains why she moved out of the neighborhood and her issues with Detroit today.
Detroit Historical Society
07/29/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Oral History
Ann Byrne
Ann Bryne was a child in 1967 and remembers watching the adults around her react to what was happening that summer.
Detroit Historical Society
02/17/2017
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Ann Crimmins, February 7th, 2017
In this interview, Crimmins discusses her impressions of the events of July 1967.
Detroit Historical Society
06/09/2017
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit Michigan
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Oral History
Ann Currier, January 31st, 2017
In this interview, Ms. Currier discusses her work at Trinity Church during July 1967.
Detroit Historical Society
03/22/2017
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Oral History
Ann Kraemer, June 18th, 2016
In this interview, Ann Kraemer discusses her role as a field work student at the School of Social Work for the University of Michigan. Kraemer and her coworkers went through the neighborhoods making sure families, children, and the elderly had the supplies they needed and then organized the distribution of supplies.
Detroit Historical Society
07/19/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Oral History
Ann Liska
Detroit Historical Society
07/21/2017
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Anthony Benevidas
In this interview, Benevides recounts his childhood experiences in
Hubbard Farms, and talks about what has changed, and what needs to
change.
Detroit Historical Society
10/19/2018
Detroit Historical Society
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Anthony Fierimonte, October 10th, 2014
1967 riot—Detroit—Michigan, Detroit Police Department—Detroit—Michigan
Former Detroit Police officer Anthony Fierimonte discusses his experiences on the force--including his role in the raid on the blind pig at Twelfth Street and Clairmont Street on July 23, 1967.<br /><br /><strong>NOTE: This interview contains profanity and/or explicit language.</strong>
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Arietha Walker
During this interview Mrs. Walker describes her childhood growing up in the West Grand and Grand River neighbor hood since she moved there in 1986. She discusses how the closing of local business and grocery stores has negatively impacted her neighborhood. She also discusses specific childhood memories that she experienced.
Detroit Historical Society
10/21/2018
Detroit Historical Society
Arlene Niskar, August 4th, 2016
In this interview, Arlene Niskar discusses her family’s decision to move when a neighbor sold a house to a black family. She also talks about her memories of her wedding day on the Sunday that the unrest began as well as her Canadian relatives’ difficulty getting back across the border.
Detroit Historical Society
12/02/2016
Detroit Historical Society
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Oral History
Art Lorenz
Art Lorenz was 13 years old in the summer of 1967. He remembers that he was unable to attend his football conditioning class. He also remembers a conversation a few weeks later with a Canadian friend who had only seen media reports of what happened.
Detroit Historical Society
02/17/2017
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Arthur Bryant, December 13th, 2016
In this interview, Arthur Bryant discusses his impressions of growing up in Detroit. He shares his experiences during the events of July 1967.
Detroit Historical Society
6/13/2017
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
Audio/Mp3
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Oral History
Arthur C Davis, August 10th, 2022
In this interview, Arthur Davis talks about his security business, Work of Art Executive Protection.
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit Historical Society
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Arthur C Davis, August 10th, 2022
In this interview, Arthur C Davis talks about his security business Security a Work of Art Executive Protection.
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit Historical Society
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Arthur Divers, July 26th, 2016
In this interview, Arthur Divers describes what it was like living in his black community during the disturbance. He discusses the various businesses that existed before the disturbance, and how it has drastically changed the community since then. He also explains racial relations within the city as well as the Detroit Police Department, and how that had an effect on him personally.
Detroit Historical Society
08/05/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Oral History
Avra Weiss
Avra Weiss lived with her husband and infant son in July of 1967 when the disturbances made them feel unsafe.
Detroit Historical Society
08/12/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Barbara Aswad, March 25th, 2017
In this interview, Barbara Aswad discusses her life as a professor of Anthropology and the Middle East. She recounts a trip through the Middle East as a 19-year-old and how that changed the course of her life and how relations have changed on subsequent trips. She talks at length about the relationship between Zionists and Arabs and the War in 1967. She also discusses her memories of the summer of 1967 in Detroit as a professor at Wayne State and similarities between the situation in the United States and the Middle East.
Detroit Historical Society
10/13/2017
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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