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 The Algiers Motel Incident - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Algiers Motel Incident is the title of a book by John Richard Hersey.
Three fl youths were killed and nine others brutally beaten, almost certainly by police or United States National Guards in the Algiers Motel, but nobody was brought to justice.
The Algiers Motel (now demolished) once stood at the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Virginia Park in the geographic center of Detroit, approximately one mile southeast of where the 12th Street Riot began.
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 The Algiers Motel Incident -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The Algiers Motel Incident is the title of a book by (additional info and facts about John Richard Hersey) John Richard Hersey.
Published in 1968, the book describes an incident occurring about the same time as the (additional info and facts about 12th Street Riot) 12th Street Riot in (additional info and facts about Detroit, Michigan) Detroit, Michigan in 1967.
Three fl youths were killed and nine others brutally beaten, almost certainly by (The force of policemen and officers) police or (additional info and facts about United States National Guard) United States National Guards in the Algiers Motel, but nobody was brought to justice.
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 The Algiers Motel Incident by John Hersey, ISBN 0801857775 And Is There a Text in This Class by Stanley Fish, ISBN ...
Three fl men were killed and nine others were brutally beaten by, as John Hersey describes it in The Algiers Motel Incident, an "aggregate of Detroit police, Michigan state troopers, national guardsmen, and private guards".
Responding to a telephoned report of sniping, the police group invaded the Algiers Motel and interrogated ten fl men and two white women, none of whom were armed, for an hour.
Hersey spent months interviewing those involved in the incident and sorting out the ensuing court proceedings in order to demonstrate that there had in fact been no sniping and that the three fl men were murdered "for being thought to be pimps, for being considered punks, for making out with white girls...
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 The Detroit Riots of 1967: Events   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The police report claims she was shot by a sniper while staying at the Harlan House Motel on 6500 John C. Lodge Highway.
The Algiers motel, located at 8301 Woodward Avenue, was known as a haven for illicit activities.
Temple was an aspiring musician was in the company of Carl Cooper and Aubrey Pollard in the Algiers motel at the time of his death.
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 THE ALGIERS MOTEL INCIDENT. - HERSEY, JOHN.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
A detailed study of one incident that occurred during the Detroit Riots of 1967: in response to a report of shots, the police rushed to the motel where they found 10 fl men and 2 white women.
When they left, 3 of the men were dead, and the others were severely beaten, but no guns had been found, and the police involved did not report the incident.
Hersey goes beyond this incident to look at the assumptions that underlie law and order as it is applied in this country.
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 algiers - OneLook Dictionary Search
Algiers : The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
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Hersey, author of Hiroshima and a Pulitzer Prize winner for A Bell for Adano, investigated the killing of three young men at the Algiers Motel during the Detroit riots of 1967.
Early on the morning of July 26, 1967, a large section of Detroit was rioting and being patrolled by heavily armed city policemen, state troopers, and National Guardsmen.
But, just to be sure, the representatives of law and order at the Algiers did a little laying waste with shotgun and the billyclub.
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 The Algiers Motel Incident - Reviewscout.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This volume provides an account of the Algier's Motel incident in 1967,
Algiers Motel by, as the author describes it, an "aggregate of Detroit police,
directed to the scene" following a telephone report of a sniping incident.
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 Algiers Motel Incident; Author: Hersey, John; Introduction: Sugrue, Thomas; Paperback (C Format)
Algiers Motel Incident; Author: Hersey, John; Introduction: Sugrue, Thomas; Paperback (C Format)
The late Pulitzer Prize winning novelist John Hersey described the event in this book, based on months of personal investigation anddetailed evidence.This volume provides an account of the Algier's Motel incident in 1967, when three fl men were killed and nine other people brutally beaten.
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Responding to a telephoned report of sniping, the Detroit police invaded the Algiers Motel and interrogated ten fl men and two white women.
The late Pulitzer Prize winning novelist John Hersey described the event in this book, based on months of personal investigation and detailed evidence.
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 Frederick Thomas Schornhorst   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Cargo Preference and Flag Discrimination in International Shipping: Actions and Reactions (with J.R. Patton, Jr.), 34 GEORGE WASHINGTON LAW REVIEW 257 (1965).
Hersey, J., The Algiers Motel Incident (with J. Schraibman), 44 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 118 (1968).
The Waiver of Juvenile Court Jurisdiction: Kent Revisited, 43 INDIANA LAW JOURNAL 583 (1968).
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 Powell's Books - Algiers Motel Incident (98 Edition) by John Hersey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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Thirty years ago, three fl men were killed and nine other people brutally beaten by, as John Hersey describes it in The Algiers Motel Incident, an aggregate of Detroit police, Michigan State Troopers, National Guardsmen, and private guards who had been directed to the scene.
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 The Algiers Motel Incident ( The Johns Hopkins University Press ) / Books : KotobaBooks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 The Algiers Motel Incident. - HERSEY, John.:
''This is John Hersey's account of an incident in the Detroit riot of 1967.'' Pp.
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 Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 97029469   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
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 The Algiers Motel Incident, The Johns Hopkins University Press, John Hersey, William J. Eisen
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 THE ALGIERS MOTEL INCIDENT - HERSEY, JOHN.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Octavo, fl decorated cloth, gilt, in dust jacket.
ΒΆ Hersey investigates the murders of three fl men at the Algiers Motel during the Detroit Riots of 1967.
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