The 40th Anniversary: Looking back on the 1967 Detroit riots

teamowens313.wordpress.com — I live about three blocks from where the riot started. There is no marker there. No sign saying “This is where it all began.” Or “This is where it all came to an end.” There is nothing much there at all except for an empty building hunkered down like an orphan on the fringes of the once aristocratic Boston Edison neighborhood.