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As an assignment, I would like us all to dig deeper. You can choose one of the following
1. Explain how you think things could have been handled differently so lives could have been spared and maybe riots could have been avoided.
2. Find a survivor of the Detroit Riot and talk about their experience living through this brutal summer. There are a couple of people online who have interviews done 50 years later speaking about their experience during the riot.

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All the victims of the Detroit Riot of 1967

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Fifty years ago in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 23, a riot broke out in Detroit and over the next five days, 43 people were killed - 33 black, 10 white.

A Free Press report in Sept. 1967 said: "The conclusion reached ... is inescapable: A majority of the riot victims need not have died. Their deaths could have been -- and should have been -- prevented."

Here are the people who lost their lives in the midst of one of America's deadliest civil disturbances of the 1960s.
Read our full coverage of the 50th anniversary of the 1967 Detroit riot
* Walter Grzanka, 45, was shot dead after midnight on July 24 by store owner Hamid Audish Yacoub after he walked through the broken windows of a looted store at 2844 4th St.

* Sheren George, 23, mother of two, shot dead at 1:15 a.m. July 24 while in the passenger's seat of a car driven by her husband near Woodward Ave. and Melbourne.

* Clifton Pryor, 23, was shot dead at 2:45 a.m. on July 24 at 667 W. Alexandrine, by a National Guardsman, who said he refused to halt and was a sniper, claims strongly denied by his family.

* Fred Williams, 49, died at 9541 Goodwin, after an arsonist hurled a Molotov cocktail into a store causing a fire. Williams was electrocuted after he stumbled or fell on a live electric power line. Police said Williams was a looter, but the Free Press said that report was false, calling Williams "one of the clearly innocent victims of the riot."

* Herman Ector, 30, Army veteran, shot dead by an unlicensed private watchman, who was later charged in Ector's death. Ector was arguing with the watchman about the way he was treating suspected looters.

* Daniel Jennings, construction worker, father of 14, was shot dead by Stanley Meszczenski at his drugstore at 6000 John R. Prosecutors said Meszczenski was justified in shooting Jennings, saying he and other men were trying to break into the store.

* Robert Beal, 49, was shot dead by police while he was looting at an auto parts store on Oakland. Police said the officer ordered Beal to come out, but he then suddenly moved toward the officer. Authorities and a Free Press report said the police shooting was justified.

* Joseph Chandler was shot dead at 1:45 p.m. July 24 by police after looting at Food Time Market at 8360 Second Ave. near his home. "When officers yelled at him to stop, he ran," the Free Press wrote in 1967.

* Herman Canty, 46, shot dead by police while he was looting from Bi-Lo Supermarket at 2450 W. Grand Blvd. Witnesses said he was loading stolen goods from the store into a van.

* Alfred Peachlum was shot dead by police at 4 p.m. July 24, while looting at an A&P supermarket at 3430 Joy. Prosecutors said the shooting was justified.

* Alphonso Smith, 35, a waiter, was shot dead by police while he was looting at 4:15 p.m. July 24 at a grocery store at 9750 Dexter.

* Edward Kemp was killed at 5:20 p.m. July 24 while looting a market at 1800 Mack. Police and National Guardsman said he refused commands to halt.

* Nathaniel Edmonds, 23, accused of looting a store, was shot in the chest by a 24-year-old man.

* Richard Sims, 35, a Chrysler employee, was shot by police on corner of Buena Vista and Linwood as he was running away. Police said he was trying to break into a bar.

* Carl Smith, who worked for the Detroit Fire Department, was shot in the head as he and other firefighters were pinned down by sniper fire on the corner of Mack and St. Jean.

* Manuel Cosbey was looting at a store when he was shot by police on July 25 at 4441 E. Nevada.

* Julius Dorsey, 55, was a private guard trying to protect a store from being looted; he was shot by police. Prosecutor said Dorsey was accidentally killed by police.

* Henry Denson, was in a car on Mack when he was struck by a bullet from a National Guardsman. Authorities say the car he was in attempted to hit police and Guardsmen at a checkpoint near East Grand Boulevard. The driver denied the police account, saying he stopped the car.

* Ronald Evans and William Jones were shot and killed by Detroit Police while stealing beer from a store at Bob's Market at 4100 Pennsylvania.

* Jerome Olshove, 32, patrolman, was the only Detroit Police officer killed during the riot. He was struck by another officer's gun during a scuffle; he had responded to looting at an A&P store at 121 Holbrook.

* Frank Tanner, 19, was shot by police as he was fleeing a pharmacy on corner of East Grand Blvd. and Helen. He had been looting.

* Arthur Johnson and Perry Williams were shot dead by police as they were looting a pawn shop at 1401 Holbrook.

* Jack Sydnor was a sniper, firing into the street, when police shot and killed him. The Free Press said he was the only sniper killed during the riot. Before he was killed, Sydnor had seriously wounded a Detroit police officer and pinned down other police with gunfire.

* Willie McDaniels, 23, was looting at Domestic Outfitting Store at Gratiot and Canton on Detroit's east side. Police said he was shot in an exchange of fire between police and snipers.

* Helen Hall, 50, of Connecticut was in Detroit for a business trip. The Free Press concluded in a September 1967 report that she was killed by a bullet from police or National Guardsmen, not a sniper as in some earlier accounts. She opened the drapes of a fourth-floor window at Harlan House Motel and was killed.

* Tonia Blanding, 4, shot on the corner of 12th and Euclid. National Guardsmen had fired at her home after sniper fire from an apartment building.

* William Dalton, 19, killed by police with a shotgun blast. Police said he was an arsonist.

* Auburey Pollard, 19, Carl Cooper, 17, and Fred Temple, 18, were shot to death at the Algiers Motel. Witnesses have said they were killed by police, and that others were beaten and terrorized by police and a security guard. Police were cleared of all charges.

* Willie Hunter and Prince Williams died of carbon monoxide asphyxiation from arson in a drugstore on 12th St.

* Julius Lust, 26, was killed by police as he was stealing from an auto parts junkyard on 17130 Jos. Campau. Two Detroit Police officers shot at him.

* Krikor George Messerlian, 68, an Armenian immigrant, was beaten to death by a mob inside his shoe repair store at 7711 Linwood.

* John LeRoy, 30, was shot by National Guardsmen at Lycaste and Mack after he and others ran a road block.

* Ernest Roquemore, 19, was shot in the back by an Army paratrooper. He was part of a crowd fleeing a Saturday night police raid on the east side.

* John Ashby, a Detroit firefighter, suffered burns while battling a blaze set by an arsonist. His metal helmet touched a high-voltage line at 3:30 a.m.

* George Talbert was shot and mortally wounded on July 26 by a National Guardsman as he walked down a west side street.

* Albert Robinson, 38, factory worker, killed by National Guardsmen responding to reports of sniper fire from his apartment building at Davison and LaSalle.

* Larry Post, a National Guard sergeant, shot accidentally by a fellow Guardsman

* Roy Banks, 46, shot by a National Guardsman at 4:30 a.m. July 25. He died Aug. 14, the last riot victim to die. Police say he was one of two men looting a bar and was shot while fleeing.
Source: Detroit Free Press stories, reports
Contact Niraj Warikoo: nwarikoo@freepress.com or 313-223-4792. Follow him on Twitter @nwarikoo

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43 fatal victims of the Detroit riot of 1967

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Fifty years ago in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 23, a riot broke out in Detroit and over the next five days, 43 people were killed - 33 black, 10 white. A Free Press report in Sept. 1967 said: "The conclusion reached ...

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The Detroit Riot of 1967 was known as one of the bloodiest riots to ever touch Detroit. Back when drinking was illegal, Speakeasy's and Blind Pig's were a reality that people were aware of. One Blind Pig was hosting for veterans who came home from the Vietnam War. Soon enough, police swarmed the building and arrested multiple people at the bar. People died at the hands of police for no apparent reason. 43 lives were lost, some "justified" due to looting and rioting, some under the age of 20. Mostly all police were cleared of changes.