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There's much talk about the upcoming 50th anniversary of the Detroit 1967 riot, which changed the landscape literally and figuratively in the city.
But there's another riot, the race riot of 1943, 73 years ago, that gets far less attention.
The riot started in June 1943 on a Sunday evening when whites and blacks fought on the Belle Isle Bridge. The riot then spread when a false rumor circulated that a mob of whites had thrown a black mother and her baby in the Detroit River. The three-day riot killed 34 people, 25 of whom were African American. More than 600 people were injured.
We came across a two-minute historic video posted by the Michigan Roundtable for Diversity and Inclusion, a Detroit-based nonprofit.