and then they complained because all the business left and no new one's came it. You would be committeed business suicide. During the Detroit riots, my sisters MIL lived in the John R Nevada area and the riots were coming closer to her home...(they started down town). She told her mother in law to sit on the porch with the lights out (getting dark) and she would come in and get her...When she crossed 8 mile and what is now I75 a car full of negro males started chasing her car. She would speed up and they would get beside her and she would slow down and so would they....When she got to about 4 blocks from her MIL street, she floored it and so did the other car, when she turned off her lights and took the street on 2 wheels damn near, honked her horn and flashed her lights at her MIL's home, she came running out to the car and they hit John R and headed for 8 mile without any more incidents....I don't even think she took a gun with her, she has one now. She lived in the Sterling Heights area around 15 mile...Youtube has a lot of video of the riots in Detroit and all the other cities....Tanks ended up patrolling the streets. The city still has much burned out area's but a lot of the homes were torn down....except when Coleman Young was mayor for 20 years, devils night started and the city burned again for halloween....Fire department would get 200 calls a night on devils night....Detroit of the 1940's and 50's was a lovely city. That when I was born there...
The worse racist around was Coleman Young. First black mayor. He told all the crooks to take there business north of 8 mile. (honkey areas)