Mar 10, 2011 - Sale 2239

Sale 2239 - Lot 252

Price Realized: $ 3,360
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(CIVIL RIGHTS--RIOTS.) Detroit Riots. Group of 16 gelatin silver prints, 8x10; stamps on reverse with notes, etc. should be seen. Detroit, 1967
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The 1967 Detroit riot began in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 23, 1967, with a police raid on an unlicensed, after-hours bar known as a "blind pig" on the city's Near West Side. Police confrontations with both patrons and observers on the street evolved into one of the deadliest and most destructive riots in American history, lasting five days and surpassing the violence and property destruction of Detroit's 1943 riot.