Deborah Chenault Green is 62, a writer. But 50 years ago she was a
pre-teen, sleeping on the porch to escape the oppressive heat, awakening
to see a sky that glowed unnaturally.
Azerine Jones is a retired baker. But in 1967
she was the 12-year-old daughter of a barber who watched his business go
up in smoke.
Girard Townsend is 66 now, living in a seniors
building near the Detroit waterfront. But a half century ago, he was
just a kid on a city bus.
The bus stopped near 12th and Clairmount streets. Townsend stepped off — and into the very start of the Detroit riot.
"I saw all these guys with masks and shields,"
he said — city police officers, most of them white, far outnumbered by a
seething black crowd.
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