Detroit, Michigan - The grave of Joe DeBlasio, one of the five unemployed workers shot to death by police and Ford security guards during the 1932 For


Detroit, Michigan - The grave of Joe DeBlasio, one of the five unemployed workers shot to death by police and Ford security guards during the 1932 Ford Hunger March. In 1992, the United Auto Workers installed grave markers for Joe York, Joseph Bussell, Joe DeBlasio, and Kalman Leny, and a cenotaph for Curtis Williams, an African-American who was not buried in the segregated cemetery.


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Location: Detroit, Michigan, United States
Photo credit: © Jim West / Alamy / Afripics
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