1967 Detroit riot ||This article needs additional citations for
verification. (October 2011)| The 1967 Detroit riot, also known
as the 12th Street riot, was a civil disturbance in Detroit,
Michigan, US that began in the early morning hours of Sunday,
July 23, 1967. The precipitating event was a police raid of an
unlicensed, after-hours bar then known as a blind pig, on the
corner of 12th (today Rosa Parks Boulevard) and Clairmount
streets on the city's Near West Side. Police confrontations with
patrons and observers on the street evolved into one of the
deadliest and most destructive riots in United States history,
lasting five days and surpassing the violence and property
destruction of Detroit's 1943 race riot. To help end the
disturbance, Governor George W. Romney ordered the Michigan
National Guard into Detroit, and President Lyndon B. Johnson
sent in Army troops. The result was 43 dead, 467 injured, over
7,200 arrests, and more than 2,000 buildings destroyed. The
scale of the riot was surpassed only by t