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.

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 ...

Once retooling was complete and union/management issues worked out, Detroit’s manufacturers and skilled laborers got to work earning FDR’s moniker “The Arsenal of Democracy,” which, among ...

The 1943 Detroit Race Riot, occurring just weeks after the Zoot Suit Riots, underscored the volatility of racial relations.

While little remembered today, the 1943 riot was a stark moment in city history, setting a harsh tone for postwar race relations that led to the 1967 rebellion, when 43 people died.

How the 1967 riots reshaped Detroit, and the rebuilding that still needs to be done In the summer of 1967, the simmering unrest in cities across America exploded. In Detroit, tensions between the ...

Detroit's first major race riot took place in 1943, when, amid rising tensions over housing and workplace segregation, rumors spread that that whites had thrown a black woman and her baby off of ...

As TIME noted, though there had been a race riot in Detroit in 1943, the city was often held up as a shining example of peace in the mid-’60s.