Site of 3 killings during pivotal, bloody 1967 Detroit riot receives historic marker

Published July 25, 2024 9:01 PM

Associated Press

DETROIT (AP) — The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city’s bloody July 1967 race riot has received a historic marker. A dedication ceremony was held Friday in a park several miles north of downtown where the Algiers Motel once stood. As parts of Detroit burned in one of the bloodiest race riots in U.S. history, police and members of the National Guard raided the Algiers and its adjacent Manor House after reports of gunfire in the area. The bodies of Auburey Pollard, Carl Cooper and Fred Temple later were found. No one ever has been convicted in their deaths.

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