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Search results for: Algiers+Motel

Algiers Motel Witness Freed

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 76, April 3-16, 1969

Karen Malloy is out of jail and home in Columbus, Ohio.

Trial Ends in Algiers Motel Case

by Chris Singer

Fifth Estate # 81, June 12-25, 1969

Suspended Detroit Patrolman Ronald August took the witness stand and told the jury at his trial that he killed 19-year old Auburey Pollard in self-defense.

The Algiers Motel Incident

by James D. Nixon

Fifth Estate # 60, August 15-September 4, 1968

a review of The Algiers Motel Incident by John Hersey. 397 pages, Hardbound, $5.95 Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Paperback, $1.25, Bantam Books

Algiers Murder Trial

by Chris Singer

Fifth Estate # 80, May 29-June 11, 1969

While the rest of the “Motor city was Burning,” to paraphrase the MC5, ironically to the tune of “Light My Fire,” the annex of the former Algiers Motel was quiet. Guests were sleeping, “eating hot dogs” and “listening to music.”

New Bethel: People’s Victory!

by Frank Joyce

Fifth Estate # 108, June 25-July 8, 1970

Alfred Hibbitt: acquitted. Raphael Viera: acquitted. Clarence “Chaka” Fuller: acquitted. Kenneth Vern Cockrell: charges dismissed. The New Bethel case is not over. But the recent acquittals of Raphael Viera and Clarence Fuller have put it at a new stage. Every …

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Three Dead—Nobody Guilty

by William Allan

Fifth Estate # 100, March 5-18, 1970

FLINT—The acquittal by an all-white jury here on Feb. 25 of three white Detroit cops and a black private guard in connection with the beating of eight black youths and two white girls in the Algiers Motel in 1967 was …

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Detroit Seen

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 110, July 23-August 5, 1970

Although Cheryl McCall originally told the Fifth Estate of her job offer with the Model Cities newspaper for twelve grand a year, she has decided not to take it. She says she will continue to write for the Detroit News‘ …

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Detroit Provos Will Help the Poor

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 40, October 15-31, 1967

The Detroit Provos are ready to march in their second annual Halloween Night parade.

The News—White Man’s Paper

by People Against Racism

Fifth Estate # 78, May 1-14, 1969

“Along with the country as a whole, the press has too long basked in a white world, looking out of it, if at all, with white men’s eyes and a white perspective.”

Case Study of a Racist Institution

by People Against Racism

Fifth Estate # 77, April 17-30, 1969

“Along with the country as a whole, the press has too long basked in a white world, looking out of it, if at all, with white men’s eyes and a white perspective.” —Kerner Report, p. 389

Getting Away with Murder

by William Allen

Fifth Estate # 72, February 6 - 19, 1969

Two cases of “getting away with murder” of blacks by whites are currently occupying the attention of Detroiters.

Letters

by Various Authors

Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968

To the Editors: On the afternoon of November I, there was a demonstration in front of the 13th precinct police station on Woodward. The purpose of the demonstration was to protest the brutal treatment which the police inflicted upon a …

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Police Take Lumps

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 67, November 28-December 11, 1968

Is Detroit Police Commissioner Johannes Spreen serious about trying to alter the brutal, racist and corrupt nature of the force he commands? Some think he is. He ordered the suspension on Nov. 13 of nine policemen in the unprovoked beating …

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The (Last) Rights of Malice Green

by G. Raffito

Fifth Estate # 341, Spring 1993

On a chilly Friday morning, November 6, 1992, a slight drizzle dabbed the sidewalk where the night before a man had been bludgeoned to death by a gang of Detroit policemen.

Control your local police

by Fifth Estate Collective

Fifth Estate # 66, November 14-27, 1968

The Detroit Police are out of control. They have completely slipped out from under the authority of the Mayor and his Police Commissioner and now comprise a vigilante force dedicated to maintenance of the status quo.

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