Ian Kushnir, a freelance photographer who specializes in fire photos as well as photojournalism for the Heritage newspapers and Patch.com, has posted on his website a collection of 51 photos of the 1967 riot that he says have never been published.
His grandfather, Daniel Kushnir, saved them after someone threw them out at The Detroit News many years ago.
Some of the scenes, especially those on 12th Street, where the riot began, are familiar because other photographers would have been present, and similar images would have appeared in the News. Some of the shots never ran because they likely were rejected by editors as not being worthy of publication. But together, the collection is a vivid black-and-white documentation of a major event in Detroit history.
In fact, 46 years ago this week, the disturbance having been quelled, the city was just starting to pick up the pieces.
Ian Kushnir was born in Farmington Hills and grew up in the Dearborn area, graduating from Fordson High School and Henry Ford Community College.
