Seventy years after race riots tore through Detroit in June 1943, LIFE.com offers a series of photos from a great American city in turmoil. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV Subscribe Subscribe ...

Metro Times' look back at the 1943 Detroit race riot 60 years after. Mention "Detroit" and "riot" to most metro Detroiters today, and most people will think of the year 1967.

Today, however, as we mark 75 years since the 1943 Detroit race riot, we wonder if maybe we might have devoted a bit more energy this year to remembering that episode.

Tuesday marks the 80th anniversary of the 1943 Detroit race riots. Brawls started on Belle Isle and then spread to downtown. Thirty-four people died; nine were white, and 25 were Black. Seventeen ...

On June 3, 1943, a wildcat walkout was led by 25,000 White UAW members at the Packard Auto Plant who resented management’s federal contracting mandate to integrate the segregated factory ...

The 1943 Detroit Race Riot, occurring just weeks after the Zoot Suit Riots, underscored the volatility of racial relations. Over three days, white and Black residents clashed violently, resulting ...

Historian Tom Klug sets record straight about victims of 1943 Detroit riot. ... setting a harsh tone for postwar race relations that led to the 1967 rebellion, when 43 people died.

Even in a country shaped by race relations, Detroit stands out. The story of race in the city has its own complexity beyond that of many others. However, so often the story gets reduced down to one ...

In Detroit, tensions between the police and the African-American community reached their limit, unleashing five days of full-out violence -- riots or a rebellion, depending on whom… By PBS News Hour ...