* 1943 – The Detroit Race Riot breaks out and continues for three more days.

* 1863: Detroit Race Riot

* 1943: Detroit Race Riot

* July 23 – 12th Street Riot / Detroit Race Riots: In Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city: 43 are killed, 342 injured and 1, 400 buildings burned.

* Who's Who of the Colored Race, Memento Edition Half-Century Anniversary of Negro Freedom in U. S., reprinted by Gale Research Company, Book Tower Detroit, 1976.

*, most of whose mileage is in Wayne County, serves the southern side of the Detroit Metro Airport as well as the Pinnacle Race Course.

Mackinac Island is the destination of both the annual Chicago to Mackinac Sailboat Race, run by the Chicago Yacht Club, and the annual Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race, sponsored by the Bayview Yacht Club of Detroit, Michigan.

A significant motivation was to gain tax revenues from the DRC ( Detroit Race Course ), which was Michigan's only thoroughbred horse racetrack that closed in 1998.

* The Origins of the Urban Crisis: Race and Inequality in Postwar Detroit ( Princeton Studies in American Politics ) by Thomas J. Sugrue, Princeton University Press ; Revised edition ( August 1, 2005 ), ISBN 978-0-691-12186-4

Tugboat races are held annually on Elliott Bay in Seattle, on the Hudson River at the New York Tugboat Race, the Detroit River, and the Great Tugboat Race and Parade ( 2012 event was on June 29 – 30 ) on the St. Mary's River

Well-informed observers believed that Detroit had extinguished the embers of resentment left over from the 1943 Detroit Race Riot.

* 2005 Race for Mayor ( Detroit )

* 2005 Race for Mayor ( Detroit ) ( Primary Election )

* 2001 Race for Mayor ( Detroit )

Detroit, Michigan's MC5 ( Motor City 5 ) came out of the underground rock music scene of the late 1960s, and displayed an aggressive evolution of garage rock which was often fused with sociopolitical and countercultural lyrics of the era, such as in the songs " Motor City Is Burning " ( a John Lee Hooker cover adapting the story of the Detroit Race Riot ( 1943 ) to the Detroit Insurrection of 1967 ), and " The American Ruse " ( which discusses U. S. police brutality as well as pollution, prison, materialism and rebellion ).

Visions of praxis cited by Race Traitor writers range from anti-racist unionism ( such as DRUM in Detroit ), collaboration in urban uprisings, and documenting and interfering with police abuse of people of color.

The 1943 Detroit Race Riot killed 25 blacks and 9 whites over 36 hours, with federal troops used to restore calm.

* Detroit Race Riot ( 1943 ) Detroit, Michigan ( 1943 )

* 1967 – 12th Street Riot: in Detroit, Michigan, one of the worst riots in United States history begins on 12th Street in the predominantly African American inner city.

White flight from the city accelerated after the 1967 Detroit 12th Street Riot.

Hersey also wrote The Algiers Motel Incident, about a racially-motivated shooting by police during the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan, in 1968.

* July 1967 Detroit Riot web page from PBS ' Eyes on the Prize documentary.

* Detroit Riot of 1967 from Wayne State University's Virtual Motor City Collection.

The riots that swept cities across the country from 1965 to 1967 damaged or destroyed additional areas of major cities — most drastically in Detroit during the 12th Street Riot.

The Livernois-Fenkell Riot was a racially-motivated riot in the summer of 1975 on Livernois Avenue at Chalfonte Avenue, just south of Fenkell Avenue, in Detroit, Michigan.

The book describes an incident which occurred in 1967 in Detroit, Michigan, at about the same time as the racially charged 12th Street Riot.

It aligned itself with radical politics, claiming the 12th Street Riot was justifiable under political and economic conditions in Detroit.

* 1833-June 14, Blackburn Riot in Detroit Thornton Blackburn

In 2011, Detroit based author, Gregory Fournier published his novel, Zug Island: A Detroit Riot Novel.

He was the first foreigner to become director of an American observatory, serving as director of Detroit Observatory from 1854 to 1863.

Back in Detroit, James ’ eldest daughter, Ellen Warren Scripps ( 1863 – 1948 ), married George Gough Booth, who subsequently became the publisher of the Evening News Association and independently founded Michigan ’ s Booth Newspapers chain ( acquired by S. I.

'" The Court agreed that the Constitutional rights of blacks were being violated ; however, because these violations occurred within the city Detroit, outside suburbs could not be held responsible.

The first report of CA-MRSA occurred in 1981, and in 1982 there was a large outbreak of CA-MRSA among intravenous drug users in Detroit, Michigan.

Famous multiple sighting occurred in the days before the 1805 fire which destroyed most of Detroit.

After he signed with Detroit, a minor war of words occurred between Ordóñez and Ozzie Guillén, his former manager and teammate in Chicago.

Social Democratic Federation leader Louis Waldman noted in his memoirs that while the official split of the Socialist Party that resulted in the creation of the Social Democratic Federation took place in 1936, " the crucial events occurred at the party's national convention in Detroit in 1934.

Jefferson missed the majority of the 2004 – 05 regular season after rupturing a ligament in his left wrist, an injury he claimed occurred when Detroit Pistons guard Chauncey Billups purposely undercut him on a layup attempt during a game on December 27, 2004.

When it was learned that Brunner intended to travel to Detroit to meet Skeer, detectives followed her to the apartment shared by Skeer and Pierpont where the arrests occurred.

On the evening of December 13, 2003, an altercation occurred between Stollsteimer and the White Stripes frontman Jack White during the record release party for the band Blanche at The Magic Stick ( a Detroit music club.

The Pacers – Pistons brawl ( colloquially known as the Malice in the Palace ) was an altercation that occurred in a National Basketball Association game between the Detroit Pistons and Indiana Pacers on November 19, 2004, at The Palace of Auburn Hills in Auburn Hills, Michigan.

NHL President Clarence Campbell cleared Kennedy of wrongdoing and rebuked Detroit coach Tommy Ivan for accusing Kennedy of a deliberate attempt to injure the Red Wings ' Gordie Howe. NHL President Clarence Campbell was at the game and was seated near where the incident occurred.

This occurred during a game against the Detroit Tigers which was interrupted by a prolonged disturbance in the outfield.

Recording occurred in Detroit.

He had a season-high six tackles against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Monday Night Football, while his lone sack of the season occurred against the Detroit Lions.

It occurred in a game versus the Detroit Red Wings.

A major trade that occurred this year was Chicago trading their great defenceman Earl Seibert to Detroit for Don Grosso, Cully Simon and Byron " Butch " McDonald.

The seal is a representation of the Detroit fire which occurred on June 11, 1805.