The Algiers Motel Incident
- The Algiers Motel Incident
"The Algiers Motel Incident" is a 1968 true crime book by John Richard Hersey. The book describes an incident which occurred in 1967 in Detroit, Michigan, at about the same time as the racially charged 12th Street Riot. At the Algiers Motel, approximately one mile southeast of where the riots began, three black youths were killed and their two white girlfriends and seven others brutally beaten, almost certainly by police or members of the United States National Guard. No defendants were convicted in subsequent state and federal trials.
The Algiers Motel (now demolished) once stood at the intersection of Woodward Avenue and Virginia Park in the geographic center of Detroit.
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