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The First Kwanzaa: How The 1965 Watts Riots Inspired A Holiday
In 1966, Dr. Maulana Karenga, professor and chairman of Black Studies at California State ... August 1965 fueled a six-long riot in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Watts Rebellion ...
BBC6y
The LA Watts riots - 22 August 1965
The scale of the violence at Watts bears no relation ... that the federal government had warned California to expect trouble from the Negros in the Los Angeles suburbs. Just about the safest ...
National Review9y
The ’60s Is Repeating Itself in Universities and Black Neighborhoods
America saw in Los Angeles’s Watts neighborhood the first of the 1960s’ horrifying urban riots. The Berkeley ... Berkeley and Watts were followed in California by the election of Governor ...
Sterling Journal-Advocate6y
The history of Watts and family structure stability
Highway 105 in Watts, a dozen miles south of downtown Los Angeles ... The altercation escalated into a riot. For the next six days the LAPD, the California Highway Patrol, and the National ...
Associated Press4y
An intimate look at LA’s Watts, 55 years after violence erupted
But while violence broke out in various parts of the city, there were no violent protests in Watts, the neighborhood in South Los Angeles that has been the site of notorious race riots. That dynamic ...
Los Angeles Magazine9y
50 Years After the Watts Rebellion, Felicia Still Finds Relevance
August 9 marked the one-year anniversary of the Ferguson riots ... of California extension media who distributed it and was marketed as a way to help people understand and think about Watts ...