1967 Detroit riot

The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "long, hot summer of 1967". Beginning in the early hours of Sunday, July 23, 1967, after a police raid on an unlicensed after-hours bar, it lasted five days of confrontations between African American residents and the Detroit Police Department. Governor George W. Romney ordered the Michigan Army National Guard into Detroit and President Lyndon B. Johnson sent the 82nd and 101st Airborne divisions; the riot resulted in 43 deaths, 1,189 injured, over 7,200 arrests, and more than 400 buildings destroyed.