Steve Moss
Title
Steve Moss
Description
Steve Moss was a 12 year old child returning from a family vacation in July of 1967.
Publisher
Detroit Historical Society
Date
07/12/2016
Rights
Detroit Historical Society, Detroit, MI
Format
Text
Language
en-US
Type
Written Story
Text
I was just 12 years old living in the suburbs with my family.
The day the riot started my family took a rare trip to a friend's lake cottage.
As we didn't get to the lake very often it was a special treat for me and my sisters.
When we returned home that evening my father turned on the tv and heard about the riots.
At 12 years old I really didn't understand what it was all about but certainly understood the destruction.
What I remember most about the riot is the following weekend as my family was traveling north on I-75 for our annual vacation in the upper peninsula, seeing national guard troops heading north back to camp Grayling. For me that brought the reality of what had been happening
The day the riot started my family took a rare trip to a friend's lake cottage.
As we didn't get to the lake very often it was a special treat for me and my sisters.
When we returned home that evening my father turned on the tv and heard about the riots.
At 12 years old I really didn't understand what it was all about but certainly understood the destruction.
What I remember most about the riot is the following weekend as my family was traveling north on I-75 for our annual vacation in the upper peninsula, seeing national guard troops heading north back to camp Grayling. For me that brought the reality of what had been happening
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Submitter's Name
Steve Moss
Submission Date
07/07/2016
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Citation
“Steve Moss,” Detroit Historical Society Oral History Archive, accessed March 15, 2025, http://oralhistory.detroithistorical.org/items/show/302.