In the tumultuous summer of 1967 in Detroit, Michigan, a young life was tragically cut short amidst the chaos of what would become known as the 12th Street Riot. Four-year-old Tanya Lynn Blanding, an African American girl, was inside her family's second-floor apartment at the corner of 12th Street and Euclid on the night of July 25th. The city was a landscape of unrest, with fires burning and the sounds of sirens and gunfire filling the air. It was against this backdrop of fear and violence that
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