Mary Romaya, August 16th, 2016
In this interview, Mary Romaya discusses growing up in Northwest Detroit with her Chaldean family. Romaya talks about her experiences before during and after the July 1967 events. Romaya additionally discusses her father’s supermarket business and how it was affected before and after the July 1967 events.
Detroit Historical Society
01/13/2017
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Collette Cullen, August 20th, 2016
In this interview, Cullen discusses how she felt with cultural norms in her all girls, Catholic school, and also when her family moved to Grosse Isle. She could see a lot of the unrest from outside her window because her house was close to commercial properties.
Detroit Historical Society
01/13/2017
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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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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Sheila Sharp, August 20th, 2016
In this interview, Sharp discusses what it was like to grow up and attend various elementary schools in Detroit. She recounts in detail her memory of staying with her grandmother during the uprising of 1967 and what it was like to see the National Guard in the streets. She provides a clear account of what it was like to witness these events from a child’s point of view.
Detroit Historical Society
11/29/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Patricia Burnett, August 20th, 2016
In this interview, Burnett discusses what it was like growing up in the Black Bottom neighborhood and how it was affected by Urban Renewal. Her family moved to the east side. She shares two memories of 1967; she recounts how she lied about curfew in order to check out the situation on the west side and how she witnessed a familiar corner store being looted and how the storeowner shot at the looters. She recalls how to felt to be a teenager during that time.
Detroit Historical Society
11/29/2016
Detroit Historical Society
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Sheila Shelton, June 23rd, 2016
In this interview, Shelton discusses what it was like growing up on the northeast side and how she and her sister were injured in a looting incident in the events of 1967. She discusses what it was like to meet various icons in the city and how Detroit has changed since 1967. She shared her critical thoughts for the future of the city and asserts that in spite of development, more attention needs to be paid to the neighborhoods.
Detroit Historical Society
11/29/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Bill Goodman, October 5th, 2016
In this interview, Bill Goodman discusses growing up in Detroit and describes how racism affected his family growing up. He also discusses his career as a civil rights attorney in Michigan during the 1960s.
Detroit Historical Society
11/22/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Brian Fountain, June 18th, 2016
In this interview, Fountain describes the unrest from a 12-year-old’s perspective. For example, he recalls seeing two men carrying a new couch in the alley behind his grandparents’ house, and realizing the men had looted the furniture. He repeatedly compares the destruction–which he recalls vividly–to warfare, mentioning Vietnam gunfire and World War II bombing. The unrest also demolished his favorite hangout, Lucky Strike Bowling Alley, which was located on Grand River on the Boulevard.
Detroit Historical Society
11/01/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Wayne Davidson, August 30th, 2016
In this interview, Wayne Davison discusses growing up in the Jeffries Projects, moving to Cleveland, and returning to Detroit in 1965. On July 23, 1967, he was attending a Motown revue at the Fox Theatre.
Detroit Historical Society
11/01/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Ola Takumbo Unger, September 8th, 2016
In this interview, Unger discusses her experiences as a 12-year-old living with her sister who suffered from cerebral palsy and her mother who was dying from breast cancer. She talks about being alone with them in the house while the 1967 unrest took place in the streets around her neighborhood.
Detroit Historical Society
11/01/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Victory Johnson, August 4th, 2016
In this interview, Johnson describes growing up on the west side and her experiences during the unrest of witnessing people looting and her taking her baby to her mother’s house for safety. She further discusses her opinions on how the city has changed and how she sees the city today.
Detroit Historical Society
09/20/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Virgil Taylor, July 23rd, 2016
In this interview, Taylor describes the looting and chaos that he witnessed during the summer of 1967. He also discusses the many issues Detroit faces today, including racism and disinvestment.
Detroit Historical Society
09/20/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Ronald Navickas, August 23rd, 2016
Ronald Navickas was an employee of an armored truck company in 1967. He discusses his childhood in Highland Park and his memories of the week of July 23, 1967. He talks about why he moved and his impressions of the city when he returned and how he feels about it today.
Detroit Historical Society
09/16/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Gerald Charbenneau, July 15th, 2016
In this interview, Gerald Charbenneau discusses life growing up in Oregon and his time serving in the Peace Corps in Columbia. He talks about the Cass Corridor community and gentrification and how the events of 1967 impacted the community and the city of Detroit.
Detroit Historical Society
09/16/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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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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Faye Reese, August 4th, 2016
In this interview, Reese discusses growing up on the west side in a multi-generational household. She describes the Women’s Division of the Detroit Police Department where she worked during the unrest and what her duties included during that week.
Detroit Historical Society
08/26/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Allan Ranusch
Allan Ranusch was 11 years old and lived in the lower east side of Detroit in 1967. He remembers when looters broke into the neighborhood convenience store, snipers, and the damage to his neighborhood.
Detroit Historical Society
08/23/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Don Handy
Don Handy wrote a poem about his memories of the summer of 1967.
Detroit Historical Society
08/19/2016
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Greg Smigielski
Greg Smigeilski was a manager at the A&P on West Grand Boulevard and Linwood the summer of 1967.
Detroit Historical Society
08/19/2016
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Crystal Edwards
Crystal Edwards remembers scenes from her neighborhood in July 1967.<br /><br /><strong>NOTE: Edwards' account was previously published in July 25, 2007 by the Michigan Chronicle - Volume 70, Number 45, called "Eyewitness Account of the 1967 Riot"<br /></strong><br /><strong>and </strong><br />
<p><strong>Then published again, called, "At The Time of The 1967 Detroit Riots", pages 67-68, Passager, Martin Luther King Issue, <a href="mailto:passagerbooks@ubalt.edu">passagerbooks@ubalt.edu</a>, March, 2008.</strong></p>
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