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A store owner guards his property in Detroit during the 1967 riots, behind a sign he made that, he hoped, might help spare his shop from attack by roving mobs. Lee Balterman—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images Detroit Ruins, Detroit Riots, Detroit History, Store Owner, Time Life, Civil Rights Movement, Motor City, Pure Michigan, Detroit Michigan

The photos in this gallery are not meant to represent "the best" pictures made by LIFE's photographers that year. Instead, in their variety of style and theme, they illustrate the fluid, volatile new world that countless millions were struggling to come to grips with, and to safely navigate, throughout the charged days, weeks and months of that long, strange year of '67.

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