The 'long, hot summer of 1967'
Fifty years ago, a wave of violent riots exposed the dark reality of America's race problem
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(Image credit: The Associated Press)
(Image credit: Policemen in riot gear enforce a citywide ban on demonstration as the NAACP Youth Council attempts to march to their burned-out "Freedom House" in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.)
(Image credit: Michigan National Guardsmen stand at the ready as firemen battle one of numerous blazes in riot-torn Detroit.)
(Image credit: A man hurls a shoe at police in Detroit.)
(Image credit: A Michigan state officer searches a young man in Detroit.)
(Image credit: National Guardsmen escort a fire truck into the riot area of Cambridge, Maryland, as debris from a fire continues to smolder.)
(Image credit: A man is taken into custody in Detroit.)
(Image credit: A Youth Patrol, created to help restore order to the riot-torn sections of Tampa, meet with a city administrator.)
(Image credit: Captured men peer from under a garage door, guarded by an Amy trooper, in Detroit.)
(Image credit: Picketers calling for the removal of National Guard troops from Newark march near City Hall.)
(Image credit: With National Guardsman standing watch, women arrested during the rioting in Detroit board a bus for transfer to a nearby detention home.)
(Image credit: A man is forced to lie on the pavement as New Jersey state police stand guard in Newark.)
(Image credit: Women and children stroll past the remains of homes caught in the path of the rioters in Detroit.)
(Image credit: A Detroit shop owner tries to keep his storefront clean.)
(Image credit: Pallbearers carry the tiny casket of Tanya Blanding, 4, a victim of riots in Detroit. The girl was killed as a hail of police and National Guard bullets swept an apartment building where she)
(Image credit: A white woman stands in protest with a Confederate flag as a group of civil rights marchers pass through Hammond, Louisiana.)
(Image credit: A Youth Patrol, created to help restore order to the riot-torn sections of Tampa, meet with a city administrator.)
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