MSU Professor Remembers "Coming Home From Church" To Detroit Uprising

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Published July 23, 2017 at 10:00 AM EDT

MSU sociology professor Carl Taylor — MSU professor/Detroit native Carl Taylor, Ph.D

Michigan State University sociology professor Carl Taylor, Ph.D was 17-years-old when disturbances broke out in his Detroit neighborhood on June 23, 1967.

He talked with WKAR's Reginald Hardwick about that day, how his middle-class diverse neighborhood changed after the riots/rebellion. And what that community looks like now.

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