The Livernois-Fenkell riot was a racially-motivated riot that occurred in the summer of 1975 on Livernois Avenue at Chalfonte Avenue , just south of Fenkell Avenue , in Detroit, Michigan, when a disruptive black bar patron at Bolton's Bar was ejected from the premises by its white owner/operator. Crowds gathered and rampaged along Livernois and Fenkell avenues, killing one unwitting white motorist who was driving along Fenkell. He is believed to be the only fatality. The damage to property in the Livernois-Fenkell area numbered in the tens of thousands of US dollars.