RACE RIOTS
IN DETROIT IN JUNE NOT PREMEDITATED NOR INSPIRED BY ENEMY INFLUENCE.. FINDING OF INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE). (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.35 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 11. The race riots in Detroit on June 21. in which 34 persons were killed and 800 injured, were not planned, not premeditated and not inspired by subversive enemy influence.—This is the finding of the committee which investigated the disturbances. The committee found that looting and rioting followed on several disconnected. incidents, primarily provoked by a false rumour that whites had killed a coloured woman and her child. White and negro youths were the principal rioters, but both gangs lacked a preconceived or premeditated organisation. The Census Bureau reveals that the negro population of the cities and larger towns increased 23 per cent from 1939 to 1940 owing to the migration of nearly a million workers from rural small town areas. The total negro population is now nearing 12-1- million. Atlantic City, with 24 per cent negroes, has the highest proportion of any northern city.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1943, Page 4
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174RACE RIOTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1943, Page 4
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