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  • be a diversionary tactic. Belle Isle, the recreation area in the Detroit River that had been the scene of the 1943 riot, was sealed off. In an effort not to attract people to the scene, _some broadcasters cooperated by reporting no news of the riot. As a · result
  • to be desegregated with all deliberate speed. On December 1, 1955, a Negro seamstress named Rosa Parks was arrested when she refused to give up her seat to a white man on a M~ntgomery, Alabama, bus. When the news spread through the community, a young Negro minister
  • in the aOllmlWlity which does IQOst of the riotinq. Again, experience in such cities aa New York and St. Louis suggest ■ that theae step• are bot.b feasible and important. But the experience of Detroit •uggesta that these efforts by themaelves, without effort
  • map across the room. Curvin 10 & 11 p. 40 - Last paragraph. The carloads of police officers were not reinforcements; they were officers reporting in for a new shift. Melchior 8 p. 41 - First full paragraph. The molotov cocktails were thrown just
  • Shop. To DGH (CB). 1:25 PM 7/24 (Looter) ROBERT BEAL, 49/N/M of.8857 Treadwell, a looter, shot_by Detroit Police Patr. ERNEST GILBERT, #2 Task Force, at the Oakland Auto Parts, 9325 Oakland. Homicide File #71! Assigned to - Bowron. Report on Case
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  • , THROUGH AUGUST31, 1964, AND YOUTHDISTURBANCES SEPTEMBER 4, 1964 1 THROUGH SEPTEUBER7, 1964 STA'£E OF NEW YORK New York City July 17 2 1964, through July 31, 1964 • Following the shooting of fifteen-year-old James :>owell, a Negro, in New York City
  • , 1964 . 'SUl~JARY_ANALYSI~ OF THE RACIAL : DISTURBANCES ANDRIOTING DURING : THE PERIOD FROMJULY 17, 1964, THROUGH AUGUST31, 1964, AND YOUTHDISTURBANCES SEPTEMBER 4, 1964 1 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 7, 1964 STATEOF NEWYORK New York City ~uly 17, 1964, through