Above all, the 1967 Detroit Riots emphasized the police brutality, discrimination, and violence that had an impact on the riots. The Detroit Riots served as a message from the African Americans saying they do not want to be at the bottom of the chain anymore. They do not want to be known as colored, instead they want to experience equality with Caucasians.
“The 1967 Detroit Riots were some of the deadliest riots in U.S. History leading to approximately forty three deaths, three hundred forty two injuries, and seven thousand arrests” (1967 Detroit Riots).
Many Caucasians left Detroit due to the riots. Many minorities began getting hired for varied jobs. The riots in Detroit of 1967 had an impact on Detroit and other parts of the United States.
“It’s not an accumulation of a couple of years or since World War II,” Conyers explained. “I think that we're going to be able to look into this and find that when you take 250 years of slavery and put 102 years of second to tenth class citizenship according to where you live, created, in America, a special negro culture, segregated at all times except for a few general exceptions and a little tokenism type progress, that you began building up this kind of resentment.I think that we’re going to be able to look into this and find that when you take 250 years of slavery and put 102 years of second to tenth class citizenship according to where you live, created, in America, a special negro culture, segregated at all times except for a few general exceptions and a little tokenism type progress, that you began building up this kind of resentment.” Representative John Conyers, Jr explains” (Steckroth).