1967 Detroit Uprising

Beginning July 23, 1967, a police raid on an unlicensed bar in Detroit triggered five days of civil unrest that became one of the deadliest and most destructive urban uprisings in American history. Forty-three people died, over 1,100 were injured, and 7,200 were arrested. President Lyndon Johnson deployed the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions — the largest use of federal troops in a domestic crisis since the Civil War. The uprising directly prompted Johnson to establish the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, which produced the landmark Kerner Commission Report.