Spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions and issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by heather and thompson and detroit page editorial editor. We will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. Would you describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. It also suggests how we should understand what happened and the impact it had. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger at that went into that moment had long been predicted. The economic discrimination, that frustration cannot be understood as chaotic and incoherent. It was a rebellion. The word i have come to over some time is uprising which captures what happened
Spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions and issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by heather and thompson and detroit page editorial editor. We will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. Would you describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. It also suggests how we should understand what happened and the impact it had. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger at that went into that moment had long been predicted. The economic discrimination, that frustration cannot be understood as chaotic and incoherent. It was a rebellion. The word i have come to over some time is uprising which captures what happened
Earlier today, American History tv was live from detroit to look back 50 years. Our guests joined us at a Detroit Free Press room to talk about what happened and why and to answer viewer questions. This is about two hours. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. 50 years ago today, riots erupted in the city of detroit, michigan, sparked by a police raid on an illegal bar known locally as a blind pig. Five days later, 43 people are dead and 7000 have been arrested. President lyndon b. Johnson sent 5000 federal troops. Property damage was estimated at more than 30 million. The affected areas still bear the scars of the riots today. Green spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions about how far detroit has come addressing the issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by professor Heather Ann Thompson a detroit editor. Ss we will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets,
Distraite Historical Society is pleased to host this special event and after todays presentation you are welcome to stay as long as read like if you have not been here there is a lot of new things you will find interesting on the first floor with in the gallery of culture youll see some of the stories his recollections setter here today come to life through videos and are working and photographs so please dont miss that. The format today is to have a discussion and our guest today is David Maraniss a pulitzer prizewinning author called once in a great city. [laughter] i should have known that and of course, it is for sale in the bookstore so after the presentation we will ask you to go upstairs and he will be more than happy to side cited are few brought a book with you that is where he will be end dash is that the conclusion at about noon if we are honored to have a Mark Cavanagh representing the cavanaugh family the oldest son of Jerome Cavanagh and they will guide is an interactive
President John F. Kennedy was fatally shot 60 years ago on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963. The 46-year-old Democrat was set to give a speech in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald, a former U.S. Marine, was …