Coleman Young’s first mayoral campaign began 50 years ago

[Wesley Mouch]

This was the year my dad, the DPD Inspector, retired and moved us to a small town at the base of the thumb...
I was miserable

Your dad was smart. Detroit's decline began with Young.

Young addressed important, unaddressed issues. I don't blame him for his policies. But they were divisive and hurt blacks more than they have helped.

Young could have led Detroit away from bigotry, but he fed the beast. Lost opportunity.

I hope we can realize now that only by discarding the race hustlers can we succeed together.

[mwilbert]

Your dad was smart. Detroit's decline began with Young.

There is no sense in which Detroit's decline began with Young. And I say that as someone who did not like Young, and who is perfectly willing to agree that he wasn't at all helpful. But Detroit's decline began a couple decades earlier, at least.

[Henry Whalley]

...But Detroit's decline began a couple decades earlier, at least.

Depends how you define decline.

[jcole]

My father was on the force for 37 years, went through 3 "riots" and the previous declining years and loved the city with all his heart. Young was the last straw; claimed he had arrested him when he was a young man and wasn't going to work for someone he had put in jail. Dad was coming up on retirement and decided it was time.

There is no sense in which Detroit's decline began with Young. And I say that as someone who did not like Young, and who is perfectly willing to agree that he wasn't at all helpful. But Detroit's decline began a couple decades earlier, at least.

[CassTechGrad]

My father was on the force for 37 years, went through 3 "riots"

Check this out, the Detroit Historical Society encyclopedia of Detroit refers to the 1967 riots as “The Uprising of 1967 is also known as the Detroit Rebellion of 1967”. I have never heard or seen it referred to in that way. It’s the line of text at the very bottom edge of the image.

[jcole]

A friend of mine is the Curator Emeritus of the Detroit Historical Society and edited the book "Detroit 1967" and the first time I heard of the Uprising of 1967/Detroit Rebellion of 1967 was in that book and at a talk I went to regarding it. Book came out in 2017. It appears that academics and others have taken to referring to the event that way in recent years; that's why I put "riots" in quotes.

Check this out, the Detroit Historical Society encyclopedia of Detroit refers to the 1967 riots as “The Uprising of 1967 is also known as the Detroit Rebellion of 1967”. I have never heard or seen it referred to in that way. It’s the line of text at the very bottom edge of the image.

[Danny]

In the late 1980s After Young took care of what's left of Detroit business. He decided to take a Hawaiian vacation saying "Aloha Motherf---!"