ABSTRACT
During World War II there were a number of small racial disorders but only one large-scale race riot. This chapter presents the different perspectives on the Detroit riot, which can be read as an independent lesson in historiography and as a caveat against uncritical acceptance of much of what has been written about the events of the Sixties. It includes the police commissioner and charged with a review of police behavior. The chapter explains the aid of some facts and illustrations concerning the Red Cross and the armed forces, in- migration and employment, overcrowding in dwellings, recreation, transportation, delinquency and crime, and prejudiced attitudes. It deals with events which occurred as a consequence of direct assaults upon the segregated social structure, a swimming pool integration incident in St. Louis and the first major housing dispute, in Cicero, Illinois. The chapter also discusses basic factors contributing to the Cicero racial violence.
