<P> The 1967 Detroit riot , also known as the 12th Street riot or the 1967 Detroit rebellion , was one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States during the `` Long hot summer of 1967 '' . This riot was a violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit , Michigan . It 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 , just north of the corner of 12th Street ( today Rosa Parks Boulevard ) and Virginia Park Avenue , 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 the history of the United States , lasting five days and surpassing the violence and property destruction of Detroit 's 1943 race riot just 24 years earlier . </P>
<P> The 1967 Detroit riot , also known as the 12th Street riot or the 1967 Detroit rebellion , was one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States during the `` Long hot summer of 1967 '' . This riot was a violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit , Michigan . It 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 , just north of the corner of 12th Street ( today Rosa Parks Boulevard ) and Virginia Park Avenue , 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 the history of the United States , lasting five days and surpassing the violence and property destruction of Detroit 's 1943 race riot just 24 years earlier . </P>
where did the worst riot of the 1960s occur
where did the worst riot of the 1960s occur
The 1967 Detroit riot , also known as the 12th Street riot or the 1967 Detroit rebellion
The 1967 Detroit riot , also known as the 12th Street riot or the 1967 Detroit rebellion