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Police killings of 3 black men left a mark on Detroit's history more than 50 years ago

  • Written by Jeffrey Horner, Senior Lecturer of Urban Studies, Wayne State University
Shooting victims are removed from the Algiers Motel in Detroit, July 26, 1967. AP Photo

Police routinely used violent force against blacks in the U.S. before the 1940s, primarily as a means of preserving segregation in cities.

It became a last line of defense for segregationists after the U.S. Supreme Court in 1948 weakened the ability of property...

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