(26 Jul 2024)
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Detroit – 26 July 2024
1. Various of the state historic marker erected at the site of the former Algiers Motel
2. Historian Danielle McGuire (left) and James Sortor (right), who was at the Algiers Motel on July 26, 1967, speak to others at the ceremony
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Danielle McGuire, historian:
“But their hopes and dreams for the future were cut short by three Detroit police officers who shot and killed them on July 26th, 1967, for no reason at all right over there where the Algiers Motel once stood. Despite at least three trials, only one of which was for murder, no one was ever held accountable for their deaths.”
4. Various of Detroit Mike Duggan speaking with a member of Fred Temple’s family
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Mayor Mike Duggan, (D) Detroit:
“This day should have been done a long time ago. I’m really proud to be the mayor when this historic marker is placed today to teach the next generation.”
6. Various of Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II speaking to a Temple family member
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Lt. Gov. Garlin Gilchrist II, (D) Michigan:
“There are things in history that happen that we should be unhappy about. What I’ve also seen is that that history has been a propeller for progress.”
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ARCHIVE: Detroit – 23 July 1967
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8. STILL of a police car blocking off an area where violence erupted
9. STILL of a man being taken into custody during the riot
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ARCHIVE: Detroit – July 1967
10. STILL of a building on fire
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Detroit – 26 July 2024
11. Wide cutaway of McGuire speaking at the ceremony
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Danielle McGuire, historian:
“This marker, this memorial, is a bond between the living and the dead, between those of us who can tell the truth about the past and those who can’t. By remembering the lives of Auburey Pollard, Fred Temple and Carl Cooper, and everyone who was harmed here that night, we combat the dangers of forgetting, and we work together to build a world where this kind of brutality and violence is not repeated.”
13. A person holds a handout that describes the history behind the marker
14. A Temple family member wears a shirt with Fred Temple’s photo on it
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Thelma Pollard Gardner, Auburey Pollard’s sister:
“I want the people of Detroit and other people to know: Never forget what happened July 26th, 1967.”
16. The marker
STORYLINE:
The site of a transient motel in Detroit where three young Black men were killed, allegedly by white police officers, during the city’s bloody 1967 race riot has received a historic marker.
A dedication ceremony was held Friday in a park several miles north of downtown where the Algiers Motel once stood.
As parts of Detroit burned in one of the bloodiest race riots in U.S. history, police and members of the National Guard raided the motel and its adjacent Manor House on July 26, 1967, after reports of gunfire in the area.
The bodies of 19-year-old Auburey (AHB’-ree) Pollard, 17-year-old Carl Cooper and 18-year-old Fred Temple were found later. About a half-dozen others, including two young white women, had been beaten. The marker tells how the white officers were charged with murder following the deaths of Cooper, Temple and Pollard, but never convicted.
McGuire has spent years working with community members and the Michigan Historical Marker Commission to get a marker installed at the site.
Mayor Mike Duggan called the marker’s dedication long overdue.
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