Detroit's Deadliest Days

fifty years ago, inward July 1967, a riot broke out inward Detroit which lasted 5 days. By the fourth dimension the riot ended 43 people were dead, 1,189 were injured, over 7,200 people had been arrested as well as to a greater extent than than 2,000 buildings had been destroyed.

To score the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit Riot the Detroit News has released a map exploring every unmarried ane of the 43 deaths that occurred during the riot. The map doesn't travail to explicate the causes of the riot or how it progressed. It only attempts to explicate who died, where they died as well as how.

Five Deadly Days inward Detroit uses Carto's Odyssey.js even out map format to render a elementary chronological trouble organization human relationship of what happened inward Detroit. The basemap used for the even out map is a United States of America Geological Survey map from 1968. As y'all scroll through Five Deadly Days inward Detroit the map pans to the place where ane of the 43 people were killed. The text beneath the map provides an trouble organization human relationship of who died as well as how they were killed. This text is illustrated amongst vintage images from the Detroit News coverage of the riot inward 1967.