Create successful ePaper yourself
Turn your PDF publications into a flip-book with our unique Google optimized e-Paper software.
FROM THE ARCHIVE<br />
Detroit On Fire<br />
T<br />
his<br />
photo appeared in the August 4, 1967 issue of Life Magazine, detailing individual stories about the unrest in Detroit that summer. Jerry Yono operated<br />
Imperial Market at 9739 Linwood in the city. The sign in the window says “soul brother” because he was so involved in the Detroit community<br />
that the residents considered him important. They hung the sign and stood guard to watch his store. Yono knew the two men; they did not work for<br />
him, and he can’t remember their names, but they were from the community and shopped at his store. While he was standing outside the store talking with<br />
everyone, rioting went on around him. The drug store across the street was looted completely. He saw people carry out a safe, put it into a Cadillac, and drive<br />
away; other people then went in and took everything they could carry before burning the store down. That drug store was owned by a Jewish family.<br />
42 CHALDEAN NEWS <strong>MARCH</strong> <strong>2023</strong>
Change language