Later, 43 people were dead and 7000 have been arrested. President lyndon b. Johnson said send in 5000 troops and Property Damage was estimated at more than 30 million. Affected areas still bear the scars today. Are lingering questions about how far depart detroit has come in addressing the issues that led to the writing. Rioting. We are joined by professor heather nan heather and thompson and we will be live for the next two hours taking her calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that we hear this event that took place described as a riot, would you describe describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and suggests everyone showed up and destroyed the city for no reason and it suggests how we should understand how what happened and the impact of it was. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger act and activism that went into that moment had long been predict
Later, 43 people were dead and 7000 have been arrested. President lyndon b. Johnson said send in 5000 troops and Property Damage was estimated at more than 30 million. Affected areas still bear the scars today. Are lingering questions about how far depart detroit has come in addressing the issues that led to the writing. Rioting. We are joined by professor heather nan heather and thompson and we will be live for the next two hours taking her calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that we hear this event that took place described as a riot, would you describe describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and suggests everyone showed up and destroyed the city for no reason and it suggests how we should understand how what happened and the impact of it was. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger act and activism that went into that moment had long been predict
And one more comment id like to make is that my son, who is a white male, was pulled over tonights ago by the police because he had a low beam out. So i think things have really changed in the past 50 years. My main question is how can you say you cant make it today based on something that happened to your family 150 years ago . Id like to hear an answer to that. So i mean for starters, this idea of 150 years ago, its true slavery ended 150 years ago. But the discrimination thats baked into our system continues even today. I tell the story all the time about my father, not somebody i read about in a book somewhere, not some ancient relative. My father was born in 1933 in mississippi. Goes off to fight in the korean war. Comes home to a mississippi where he cant sit at a lunch counter, where he is not allowed to vote, where he does not get to participate in the gi bills that are offered to people coming back from war to go to college where he cant get the home loans that are offered as
Was sent back into the white house where the fbi and secret service conducted a thorough investigation of the vehicle, took many photographs, documented what they needed to for evidentiary purposes. After that the car was sent back to its modifiers in cincinnati. To be completely rebuilt as an armored vehicle. And people are always astounded to think that this car was put back into service after the assassination. You would assume either that it was destroyed or perhaps locked away in a warehouse somewhere. But no, the simple fact is the president needed to have a vehicle. President johnson at this point. There simply wasnt time to go back to the drawing board and build something from scratch. The most expeditious thing to do was rebuild this car. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Cspan. Org history. In july 1967, five days of rioting erupted in detroit, sparked by a police raid on an illegal bar and fueled by longsim
We recently met historian and educator jordan in detroits gordon park to learn about the uprising, which led to 43 deaths over 7000 arrests, and the deployment of 5000 federal troops to restore order. I am a historian and a leader with black World History and torn i do towards drop the city of detroit. What happened on july 23, 1967 . Officerndercover attempted to get inside of 9125 the street, which was police thought an illegal afterhours bar. After he was able to get in at 3 00 in the morning, the bar was rated by the police for breaking the law. And when they raided the place, they found it was not a small but the policee, confronted about 85 people who were there because two vietnam war veterans had returned, and the party being held at the club was for them. And it was sunday morning. The police were at their lowest manpower, so it took them a long time to get all of these people out. The police did not have a Good Relationship with the Africanamerican Community at that time. The