{"id":3951,"date":"2026-07-23T15:39:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3951"},"modified":"2026-07-23T15:39:42","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T15:39:42","slug":"deseret-news-archives-blind-pig-raid-lit-the-fuse-for-detroit-race-riots-in-1967","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3951","title":{"rendered":"Deseret News archives: \u2018Blind pig\u2019 raid lit the fuse for Detroit race riots in 1967"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><i>Editor\u2019s note: This story was originally published on July 23, 2024.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archive<\/i><\/p>\n<p>On July 23, 1967, the first of five days of deadly rioting erupted in Detroit as an early morning police raid on an unlicensed bar resulted in a confrontation with local residents, escalating into violence that spread into other parts of the city and resulted in 43 deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3949\">\u2018One hurts, everybody hurts\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the country continues to grapple with the issue. Newspapers across the nation told the story.<\/p>\n<p>The riots, the first of many across the nation in a sweltering summer of 1967, started with a \u201cblind pig.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to historians, the phrase was made popular during and following the Prohibition era for a \u201cspeakeasy,\u201d a place that sells alcoholic beverages illegally. A raid on just such an unlicensed bar escalated into a neighborhood confrontation, and spread across the city.<\/p>\n<p>But the factors that are always present when such riots occur were in full force.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3947\">Salt Lake City wants to limit nonresidential water use to 200,000 gallons daily<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It was hot. Many inner-city Detroit residents didn\u2019t have jobs, lived in poor conditions, and sent their kids to terrible schools. The same conditions existed in Cincinnati and Newark, New Jersey, where other deadly riots happened.<\/p>\n<p>After the riots were quelled, the federal government asked for an investigation, which became known as the Kerner report. The report was shocking in that it pointed at racism as a key part of the discussion.<\/p>\n<p>But according to reports in the Deseret News and in analysis since, many of the report\u2019s recommendations on U.S. race relations and poverty were never adopted.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some Deseret News archives on the topic:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAutos troubles, race at root of Detroit collapse\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetroit at crossroads 50 years after riots devastated city\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRiots have been aspect of U.S. life from the beginning\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReasons behind rioting remain cloaked in mystery\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDetroit files for bankruptcy\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTake a black-history journey\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVisceral \u2018Detroit\u2019 is a powerful cause-and-effect account of the Motor City\u2019s 1967 race riots\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanmovershub.com\/?p=3945\">Roy railroad corridor fire destroyed around 30 outbuildings in addition to 3 homes, fire chief says<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Related<\/div>\n<div>Deseret News timeline<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this day in 1967, riots began to bubble up in the nation over variety of issues<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-west"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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