BY WALTER OPINDE On Sunday, 20th June, 1943, one of the most serious race riots in the U.S. history broke out in the City of Detroit, Michigan. Before the riot could be brought to an end, about 36 hours later, 25 African-Americans and 9 Whites had been killed, and properties worth hundreds of thousands of […]
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