[BroJoeK]

headline: "Mob Rule: Twenty-three Persons Are Killed in Detroit Race Riots (photos) – 4-6"

"With Detroit and its metropolitan area population of about 2,500,000 persons -- tens of thousands of them employed in Detroit's many war factories -- under state emergency..."

Interesting to note that in 1943 roughly 1.8 million of the 2.5 million lived in the city of Detroit itself.

Today, Detroit's population is around 700,000 and falling every census.
Meanwhile, the larger urban area has grown to 3.7 million or 5.2 million (depending on where you draw the lines), with about 46 million living within 300 mile radius of Detroit, and 59 million in the "Great Lakes Megalopolis".

[fso301]

Quite a coincidence how the large scale race riots that just seemed to periodically erupt ceased at about the same time the cold war came to an end.

If the truth is ever known, I suspect the wartime strikes we read about were due to communist agitators.

[Mikey_1962]

This was the second war time race riot in Detroit.