The Algiers Motel Incident
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The Algiers Motel Incident is the title of a book by John Richard Hersey. Published in 1968, the book describes an incident occurring about the same time as the 12th Street Riot in Detroit, Michigan in 1967. Three black youths were killed and nine others brutally beaten, almost certainly by police or members of the United States National Guard in the Algiers Motel, but 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, approximately one mile southeast of where the 12th Street Riot began.
