Detroit Race Riots

As a result of tension built from poverty and harassment from white workers, a fight broke out among Black and white youth on Belle Isle Island. Greater violence ensued as rumors of raciallly motivated attacks infuriated mobs, leading to a request for national troops. These tensions would still exist over two decades later, only to be ignited again after a police raid at a bar in 1967 sparked the deadly Detroit Rebellion or 12th Street Riot.