75th Anniversary of the 1943 Race Riots

[EastsideAl]

That governor's report was a notorious whitewash, whose facts are disputed by nearly every historian who has written about the disturbance. And both Detroit papers [[all 3, if you include the Hearst-owned Times, which was probably the worst) were racist as hell then, and for many years thereafter. Most of the "agitation" they're talking about was simply people asking for the right to live where they wanted, to shop where they wanted, to eat drink and relax where they wanted, to walk and drive where they wanted unmolested, and to have equal opportunity in education and employment.

Part of the response to this "agitation" though was a "riot", which looked like this: