I guess those Polish neighborhoods are pretty Old. We tend to think of Hamtramck but, of course, Poletown and Poletown East are/were on the East Side of Detroit itself...and Michigan Central was the Heart of the Polish Community on the West Side. I think there was looting on Hancock there during the Uprising. Quite a few 19th century homes-some still standing-there. PBS ran a show on housing in general around the time of the 08 Crash. They made the point that neighborhoods like Briggs/North Corktown where Blacks were redlined from getting mortgages saw a Lot of unrest during the Riot. What is comitragically ironic, to me is that the former Vaudevillian Globe Theater, built in 1907 on Grand River and Trumbull, and later X Rated, survived the firestorm all around it. The Guard had a machine gun nest on Grand River and 14th St. That theater is long gone now. The Motor City Casino hypes itself up but don't forget that the intersection now called MLK and Rosa Parks Blvd was full of structures looted and wrecked.

..and Yes the poor white Southerners in that very area looted side by side with the Blacks..and Older Blacks were disgusted with the rioters. They tried to protect the DFD with rifles..but there were too many snipers so they retreated.