"Approximately eighty-eight percent of African Americans, and twenty percent of Caucasians, supported integration” (Fine 375).
Politicians from Detroit supported the formation of bipartisan coalition. The governor and mayor of Detroit suggested a coalition to advertise racial justice. Governor Romney tried to pass a new legislation. It included important relocation, tenant’s rights, and code enforcement legislation. He proposed it again even though it was rejected by Caucasian Homeowners and Republicans. While using an executive order, President Lyndon Johnson created the National Advisory Commission of Civil Orders.
"Initially the stores that were burned didn't rebuild, the neighborhoods were left as they were, federal money went to neighborhoods that were relatively stable [...] On the plus side, I think it was a wakeup call in the black community and the white community. It certainly increased the call in the black community for more self-reliance.” -Stone
In 1974 the city of Detroit elected its first African American mayor Coleman Young, and new policies encouraged the police department to become integrated. Christopher Wilson who grew up during the riots said, "The feeling that [police officers] were going to harass you or be violent with you, if I’d grown up before the riot that would’ve been common knowledge. But that just wasn’t part of my childhood.” “The one way my neighborhood didn’t recover,” Wilson also said, “was by the time I have memories, there weren’t any white people left.” Detroit's population dropped twenty percent from the 1950s to the 1960s.