African American Massacres in the U.S.A.

After Pearl Harbor, the auto industry started making bombers. FDR integrated assembly lines—bringing Southern whites and blacks together in factories. Distributed by PBS Distribution.

Learn about the 1943 riots during which 24 African Americans were killed, strengthening Civil Rights resolve. Distributed by PBS Distribution.

This comparison of the 1967 and 1943 events in Detroit.

This paper addresses not only women's participation in the 1943 Detroit riot and the gendered ideologies underlying racial conflicts in the city, but it also looks at women's participation in the community--especially changing workplace participation--prior to the riots.

he article talks about the 1967 Detroit riot, a violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan. It mentions that to end the disturbance, Governor George W. Romney sent the National Guard while President Lyndon B. Johnson sent in Army. The result was 43 dead, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed out which most of them were African Americans who lived in the area and comparison to Detroit race riot of 1943.

Detroit Historical Society

Black Past

By Vivian M. Baulch and Patricia Zacharias / The Detroit News

Mayor Edward Jeffries & Governor Harry Kelly's speeches, broadcast on all Detroit Radio stations 20 hours after the riots start