Summary

[Detroit Race Riot]

Source Archive Films by Getty Images
Title: [Detroit Race Riot]
File Number: DN-B-178 Beta SP
Color: B W
Type: Newsreel
Year: 1944
Subjects: WWII - Homefront - Riot - Detroit; Blacks - Ghetto; Military - Army - Patrolling - Soldiers; Teenagers - Mugging - Delinquents; Auto - Burning - Firemen; Windows - Broken; Segregation - Signs; Camp - Army - Tents - 1944ca; Police - Patrol Wagon - Paddy Wagon;
Description: 08:09:50:05 - 08:11:23:00 B W 1944 [Detroit Race Riot] MI, Detroit Police backing up blacks on sidewalk in front of rundown buildings. US soldiers patrolling in front of radio store. Traffic & soldiers along streets. Boys out of paddy wagon (police wagon) (5 whites & 1 black) and mug for camera. Bus out of courthouse (?). Army tent camp. Firemen hosing down burning car on city street. Broken windows in BG.
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