June 22, 1943 (May 20) ��δ Detroit race riots.


military police patrol in the Detroit ghetto riots after the tragic story of
U.S. federal troops into Detroit, to help restore order after race riots in 1943. Riots in 29 people were killed, hundreds of people were seriously injured. This is the United States since the Second World War the largest ethnic conflict.
U.S. President Roosevelt issued a circular, heavily armed army immediately ordered drove into Detroit, maintain the stability of this chaotic industrial city. The riots interferes with the normal production of military factories in the Detroit area. Many workers are afraid to go to work. (Lssdjt.com)
triggered riots reasons unknown, some black leaders that the rioting was provoked by the Nazis, while others reported that this is beaten by a white man and a black bucket and soon spread to the entire city.
Hotels, bars stopped operating, many schools can not commence. A softball game between Detroit and Cleveland have been canceled. In some areas of the city, shops, looting, windows were smashed, cars overturned been burned. Federal troops used tear gas and fired more than a thousand bullets, defeated black sniper has been in the window. Police reported that more than 1,300 people were arrested, most of them young blacks. Since then, the command will be issued at 10 o'clock curfew.