Watts riots

The Watts riots was a race riot which lasted 6 days in August 1965 in Watts part of Los Angeles, California. 34 people died, 1,032 were hurt, and 3,438 went to jail. It was the worst riot in Los Angeles history until the 1992 Los Angeles riots.

 More reading 
 Cohen, Jerry and William S. Murphy, Burn, Baby, Burn! The Los Angeles Race Riot, August 1965, New York: Dutton, 1966.
 Conot, Robert, Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness, New York: Bantam, 1967.
 Guy Debord, Decline and Fall of the Spectacle-Commodity Economy, 1965. A situationist interpretation of the riots 
 Horne, Gerald, Fire This
 Violence in the City—An End or a Beginning?, A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, 1965, John McCone, Chairman, Warren M. Christopher, Vice Chairman. Official Report online \
 David O' Sears The politics of violence: The new urban Blacks and the Watts riot Clayton D. Clingan Watts Riots Paul Bullock Watts: The Aftermath New York: Grove Press, Inc., 1969
 Johny Otis Listen to the Lambs''. New York: W.W. Norton and Co.. 1968

 Other websites 
 https://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/times/times_watts.html

Category:1965 in the United States
Category:1960s in Los Angeles, California
Category:1960s riots
Category:African-American history
Category:Civil rights
Category:Crime in California
Category:Riots in the United States
Category:Racially-motivated violence in the United States