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Detroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward
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Stories gathered to commemorate the summer of 1967 in Detroit.
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Detroit Historical Society
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Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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en-us
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10/20/2019
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Allen Adinoff
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06/09/2015
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I was 16 years old and a sophomore at Southfield [High School]. We were seeing reports of the riots on TV, and nothing looked too bad. A few houses were burning and several folks were running around on the streets. So a few of us figured we would drive down and check it out. We headed down the Lodge freeway and got to around Livernois, and holy [expletive deleted]: the entire city was burning! Then we saw tanks and armored personnel carriers crossing the overpass; shooting was everywhere.
It was then that we realized that this was bigger than we could have imagined, and we had made a horrible mistake. We turned around and drove the wrong direction on the highway to get the hell out of there. Needless to say, there was little traffic.
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arson, Southfield High School, Lodge Freeway, Livernois, Michigan National Guard
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Allen Adinoff
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Allen Adinoff was 16 years old and living in Southfield, Michigan in July 1967.
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Detroit Historical Society
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Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Alan Adinoff
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06/23/2015
1967 riot—Detroit—Michigan
Arson
Livernois
Lodge Freeway
Michigan National Guard
Southfield High School
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Detroit 67: Looking Back to Move Forward
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Stories gathered to commemorate the summer of 1967 in Detroit.
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Detroit Historical Society
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Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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I am white, a native Detroiter, and was 11 in 1967. We lived on Monica in Detroit, right off the Lodge freeway. It was an old immigrant neighborhood; I think there was one Black family on the block. There was a pedestrian bridge at the end of the street. I don't know how we first found out about the riots but my parents always watched the news so that may have been it. I remember we walked onto the bridge overlooking the Lodge--it was closed to traffic but the National Guard had tanks rolling down the freeway. Livernois was 3 blocks away. It was a commercial district and it was looted and some buildings set on fire--you could easily see the smoke and flames from the overpass. [I still wonder why people burn their own neighborhood when they didn't have anything to begin with--it just made things worse since the store owners couldn't afford to rebuild.]
All the neighbors were outside wondering what to do and whether they should leave and stay with relatives. I think everyone stayed. We did because my parents thought it would be safer than driving the streets and they weren't sure that the trouble wouldn't spread although I don't remember anything happening in the neighborhood itself. We did move within a couple of years, but stayed in Detroit, just to the far west side. I did move to the suburbs in the late '80s.
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Christine Tomassini
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03/20/2015
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Monica Street, Lodge Freeway, National Guard
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Christine Tomassini
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Christine Tomassini recalls memories of being 11 years old in July, 1967.
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Detroit Historical Society
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07/17/2015
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Monica Avenue, Detroit, Michigan
1967 riot—Detroit—Michigan
Childhood
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Growing Up In Detroit
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