“New Bethel Incident, Detroit 1969: Black Radicalism, Police Repression, Mass Arrests, and an Enduring Mystery.” A multimedia investigation of the infamous incident when a dozen DPD officers invaded the New Bethel Baptist Church, shot several people and brutalized many others, and made a mass arrest of 142 African Americans gathered for the national convention of the Republic of New Africa, a Black nationalist organization. This report by the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab documents the police repression, illegal DPD and FBI surveillance, murder conspiracy trials, and Black community protests that made the New Bethel Incident a major milestone in the history of modern Detroit.
DCC Publishes Investigative Report of New Bethel Incident, Detroit 1969
