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This July marks the 50th anniversary of the civil disturbance and unrest that erupted in Detroit.

50 years later, we can now recognize that Detroit in 1967 was a city of deep divisions that permeated every level of public life.

The city's segregation and prejudices led to omissions in coverage and perspectives. The city's African American community was under-represented in news stories and often delegitimized. The absence of blogs and social media accounts meant many voices and frustrations, from the city and suburbs alike, went unheard.

As we planned our coverage, we wondered: What would it have been like to witness the summer of '67 with the tools and technologies of today?

We've collaborated with former Free Press journalist Bill McGraw, who has written extensively on 1967, and the Detroit Historical Society, to build a detailed timeline of the events of the unrest.

See the yellow text on the timeline? Click on that text to find an annotation written by a local Detroit historian or expert using the Genius web platform. Those annotations, along with oral histories collected by the Detroit Historical Society, are there to help you explore new information, memories and perspectives of those four days in July.