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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...