Photos courtesy of the Cleveland Memory Project

1567 East 65th Street, partially destroyed during Hough Riots, 1967
A birds-eye view of an apartment building in ruins after a fire on Hough Avenue.
A bloody motorcycle rider complains to Cleveland police that he was struck with a bottle. Cleveland police have sealed off a 15-block area on the city’s racially tense east side here.
A car belonging to Benoris Toney, who was killed by a shotgun blast
A Cleveland police officer, left, with members of the Ohio Army National Guard. All men are unidentified, but the uniform patch on the bareheaded guardsman reads Stankewich
A home at 2028 East 88th Street, destroyed by fire during the Hough riots of 1966
Aerial view of a building destroyed by fire in the 1966 Hough Riots
Broom brigade on Hough Avenue
Al’s Cut Rate Store – sw corner of East 77th and Lexington burned out during riot not partially boarded
Cleveland firefighters watch as Cleveland police go up a ladder to investigate sniper activity during the 1966 Hough riots. Armed members of the Ohio Army National Guard are also on the scene.
Cleveland police chief Richard Wagner, right, wearing a helmet. Other subjects are unidentified. The photo was taken in the midst of the week-long Hough riots of 1966.
Cleveland police detectives examine a cache of guns and a hatchet seized during the Hough riots of 1966.
Gale’s Supermarket, 8818 Superior Ave.
Hough cleanup, East 73rd St., between Hough and Lexington Aves.
Hough rehabilitation, building left deteriorating after riots
Left to right Deputy Inspector Gerald Rademaker, Major Calvin Lanning, Lieutenant Thomas McCullough.
Initial [Ohio Army] National Guard and police command post at E. 79th St and Hough Ave.
Members of the Ohio Army National Guard unload ammunition from the back of a truck.The Guard was called in to assist Cleveland police during the Hough riots of 1966.
Members of the Ohio National Guard, based out of Wooster, assist Cleveland police during the 1966 Hough riots
National Guardsmen riding through the Hough neighborhood, examining damage done in the 1966 riots
Ohio National Guard members examine their equipment. The guard was called in to assist Cleveland police during the Hough riots of 1966.
Ohio National Guardsmen at 2028 East 88th Street, the scene of a fire during the Hough riots of 1966.
People receiving tools with which to clean up the Hough neighborhood following the 1966 riots
Police carry the body of Joyce Arnett from a hospital
Remnants of a fire-gutted Swift Dry Cleaners business, destroyed in the 1966 Hough riots
Remnants of a fire-gutted Swift Dry Cleaners business, destroyed in the 1966 Hough riots.
Smoke from smoldering fires set in the Hough riots of 1966
The All-Brite pharmacy and the Sav-Mor market burn in fires set by rioters.
The man, a member of the Ohio National Guard, is not otherwise indentified. The guard was called in to assist the Cleveland police with the Hough riots of 1966.
Unidentified Cleveland police officers walk through the Hough neighborhood in the aftermath of the Hough riots.
Visiting Columbus, Ohio detectives. [Columbus police] Capt. Dwight W. Joseph, center; Sgt. Don Swartz (right); Wooster, Ohio National Guardsman, left.
Women stand in front of Gale’s Supermarket, 8818 Superior Ave.
Hough riot fire damage (note building to left is Mint Cleaners, 8326 Hough Ave.

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