Allen Adinoff
Allen Adinoff was 16 years old and living in Southfield, Michigan in July 1967.
Alan Adinoff
Detroit Historical Society
06/23/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Barbara Baldinger
Barbara Baldinger had just finished her freshman year of high school and was a Red Cross volunteer at a Head Start program at St. Cecilia School near Grand River and Livernois in July 1967.
Barbara Baldinger
Detroit Historical Society
06/23/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Ceil Jensen
Ceil Jensen was a teenager who worked the hot dog stands at Tiger Stadium in July 1967.
Detroit Historical Society
07/06/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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West side of Detroit, MI
John Cipolletti
John Cipolletti was a 19 year old photographer who captured early moments of the events that occurred in July 1967.
Detroit Historical Society
07/10/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Southeast Michigan
Marianne Smith
Marianne Smith describes driving through Detroit to a school photo shoot in July, 1967.
Detroit Historical Society
07/15/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Detroit, Michigan
Michael Thompson
Michael Thompson was a teenager who delivered the Detroit Free Press around his neighborhood in July, 1967.
Detroit Historical Society
07/15/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, Michigan
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12 Street; Riviera Theatre on Grand River, Detroit, Michigan
Marcella Barowski, July 15th, 2015
In this interview, Barowski discusses growing up in an integrated neighborhood on the east side of Detroit and attending St. Bernard, an integrated Catholic school during the 1960s. She also discusses witnessing the looting of several local businesses including an A&P supermarket near her house at Mack Avenue and St. Clair Street in July 1967. Barowski also recounts how looters used her family’s backyard to sort through stolen goods and, later, how National Guardsmen used her backyard to camp during the unrest. Barowski also discusses her family’s move from the east side to the west side of Detroit during the week of the 1967 civil disturbance.
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Kathleen Kurta, June 30th, 2015
1967 riot—Detroit—Michigan, Greenfield’s Restaurant—Detroit—Michigan, Grand River Avenue—Detroit—Michigan, West Grand Boulevard—Detroit—Michigan, Woodward Avenue –Detroit—Michigan, Mackenzie High School—Detroit—Michigan, Detroit Tigers—Detroit—Michigan, Briggs Stadium—Detroit—Michigan, Tiger Stadium—Detroit—Michigan, 1968 World Series, Devil’s Nights fires—Detroit—Michigan
In this interview, Kurta discusses growing up on the west side of Detroit in the 1950s and 1960s and her intense personal experiences during the 1967 disturbance while working at Greenfield’s Restaurant on Woodward Avenue near downtown Detroit. She also discusses her family’s love of the Detroit Tigers and the positive impact winning the 1968 World Series had on a city badly scarred by the previous year’s disturbances.
Dr. Martin Levinson, June 26th, 2015
Detroit Public Schools--Detroit--Michigan, 1967 riot, Detroit—Michigan Jewish community
In this interview, Marty Levinson discusses his experience at his parents' tailoring business, which moved from Detroit to Oak Park. As a Jewish boy at the time, he describes his relationships with African Americans in school and the way neighborhoods were changing at the time.
Karen Zaleski
Karen Zaleski was sixteen years old in July, 1967, awaiting news from her father, a lieutenant fireman in the Detroit Fire Department.
Detroit Historical Society
03/21/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Detroit, Michigan
John Spence, Jr.
John Spence and his younger brother were at the Tigers game on July 24, 1967. They were 15 and 10, respectively, and rode the bus home after the game to find their anxious parents awaiting them.
Detroit Historical Society
07/24/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Southeastern Michigan, Detroit, Michigan Avenue, Tiger Stadium
Rod Schnaar
Rod Schnaar was 14 years old and living in Rosedale Park in July 1967. He had attended the Tigers baseball game but couldn't get home because the buses stopped running. Two Detroit police offers drove him home in their cruiser.
Detroit Historical Society
07/25/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Southeastern Michigan, Detroit, Tiger Stadium, Rosedale Park, McNichols Street
Sheryl Davies
Sheryl Davies recalls her experience of hiring a private plane when the international border crossing was closed off in July 1967, denying her access to Detroit Metropolitan Airport.
Detroit Historical Society
08/03/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Windsor, ON, Canada; Detroit Metropolitan Airport
Dwight Stackhouse, July 31st, 2015
12th Street—Detroit <br />1967 riot—Detroit—Michigan <br />gentrification <br />Hall’s Bowling <br />Kahn, Albert <br />Kresge’s Five & Dime Store <br />looting <br />North Corktown—Detroit <br />racism <br /><br /><br /><br />
In this interview, Stackhouse discusses growing up in the integrated North Corktown neighborhood of Detroit during the 1950s and 60s. Stackhouse, who was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness, was 19 years old in July 1967 and discusses evangelizing with his mother at Twelfth Street and Blaine Street when looting and violence was taking place. Stackhouse also opines about gentrification in Detroit and racism in America today.<br /><br /><strong>***Note: This oral history contains profanity and/or explicit language.</strong>
Barbara Donley
Barbara Donley recalls seeing the tanks and National Guard enter the city from I-96 and opines on the lasting effects of July 1967 on Detroit.
Detroit Historical Society
08/04/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Henry Ford Hospital, Kensington Metropark, South Lyon-Michigan
Alan Feldman, June 16th, 2015
12th Street—Detroit—Michigan
1967 riot—Detroit—Michigan
Clairmount Street—Detroit—Michigan
Eight Mile Road—Detroit—Michigan
Joe Louis
Looting
Lou Gordon
Michigan National Guard
Oak Park—Michigan
Schaeffer Highway—Detroit—Michigan
Woodward Avenue—Detroit—Michigan
In this interview, Feldman discusses growing up in the suburban community of Oak Park and his experiences on Detroit’s west side, where he worked as a shoe salesman, and where his father ran two cleaning stores. Feldman discusses segregation in the city and its role in precipitating the civil unrest of July 1967. He also recalls some of Detroit’s athletic heroics including the Detroit Tigers baseball team and boxer Joe Louis.<br /><br /><strong>***NOTE: This interview contains profanity and/or explicit language</strong>
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Hortense Fields
Hortense Fields recalls her memories from the night of 67 as a senior at Cass Tech High School, driving down Twelfth street with her friends.
Detroit Historical Society
10/09/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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Downtown Detroit and 12th Street
Frank Rashid, July 30th 2015
1967 Detroit Civil Disturbance
Albert Cobo
blockbusting
David Freund
Federal Housing Administration Loans
Focus Hope
Institute for Detroit Studies
Literary Map of Detroit
Marygrove College
John Powell
Rashid’s Market
Rev. Albert Cleage
Sacred Heart Seminary
Shrine of the Black Madonna
St. Agnes School
Thomas Sugrue, Origins of the Urban Crisis
University of Detroit
Veterans Administration Loans
In this interview, Rashid discusses social changes that occurred while growing up in his near west side neighborhood of Detroit as well as his own family’s experience during the 1967 civil disturbance, during which his father’s store was looted. He discusses his early involvement in Focus Hope and his scholarly interest in exploring the causes of the 1967 civil disturbance in the broader context of economics and federal urban policies and also discusses his role in establishing the Institute for Detroit Studies at Marygrove College.
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
10/13/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI, 48202
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West-side Detroit, Lothrop
Sharon Gant, August 15th, 2015
In this interview, Grant discusses growing up in Detroit, Michigan and the causes of the 1967 disturbance and her personal experiences during that week in July. Grant also looks back at her career as a social worker and at her decision to attend Law School.
Detroit Historical Society
11/16/2015
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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looting, neighborhoods, wayne state, law, social work
Ivory Williams, August 15th, 2015
In this interview, Ivory Williams recalls his childhood playing on his street and around the neighborhood. Williams tells of his grandparents’ journey to Detroit from Jim Crow South and his grandmother’s influence on him. Williams also sheds light on the 1966 Northern High School walk-out and how that affected his peers and the city.
Detroit Historical Society
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
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