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	Los Angeles, California
		Los Angeles is the largest city in California, and the second most populous in the United States, with a population of 3,694,820 as of the 2000 census.
		The Watts riots of 1965 nonetheless surprised the powers-that-be.
		Los Angeles-Latino community was largely disenfranchised until the 1990s, when redistricting led to the election of Latino members of the City Council for the first time since the 1950s and the first Latino members of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors since its inception.
	www.gamesinathens.com /olympics/l/lo/los_angeles__california.shtml (5056 words)

	Los Angeles, California
		Los Angeles is the largest city in the federal state of California, and since 1984 the second largest in the United States, when it ousted Chicago from that position.
		Los Angeles is raised by the Mexicans to the rank of ciudad (city) and in a short time becomes the capital of Alta California.
		Los Angeles is re-conquered; the capitulation in Cahuenga signals the defeat of the Californios and with it the ceding of Alta California to the United States.
	www.planetware.com /california/los-angeles-us-ca-la.htm (3665 words)

	Los Angeles, California - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
		Los Angeles —often known simply as "Las Angeles" is the largest city in the state of California and the second-largest in the Fourth Reich.
		The puebla of Los Angeles was founded in 1781 by a flighty former hippie, her strict but golden-hearted airline pilot husband, their scrappy band of loveable misfit kids, and their wacky neighbor.
		Furthermore, Los Angeles is known as the melting pot of the entire universe, intensely adored by all its inhabitants for its marvelous transformational magic.
	uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Los_Angeles (1794 words)

	Los Angeles travel guide - Wikitravel
		The city of Los Angeles [2] is the heart of the second largest metropolitan area in the U.S. While it's most famous for Hollywood, that is just one aspect of this sprawling and highly diverse city.
		The Los Angeles metro area has been a "boomtown" since the completion of the transcontinental railroad in 1876, first attracting "the folks" from the Midwest with a blessedly warm and dry climate--and becoming a gateway to a remarkable diversity of immigration from throughout the Pacific Rim and Latin America.
		Los Angeles is similar to other major metropolitan areas in that travel within certain parts of the city at night should be conducted with caution and only in groups.
	wikitravel.org /en/Los_Angeles (4948 words)

	Watts, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Watts suffered further in the 1970s, with gangs—not very active before the riots—gaining in strength.
		Watts is split between ZIP Codes 90002 and 90059.
		Watts is a part of the Los Angeles Unified School District within Local District 7.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watts,_Los_Angeles,_California (1518 words)

	CSM Urban Mission and Service Trips in Los Angeles
		Los Angeles has a population of nearly 4 million people in the city limits; 10.2 million in Los Angeles county, and 18 million in "Greater L.A." (Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties).
		Los Angeles is a huge mission field with an abundance of needs, hurt, pain, brokenness, tension, stress, hopelessness, depression, violence, anger, oppression, bondage, and hate.
		At the same time, Los Angeles has God in its midst, healing the hurt and pain, bringing wholeness and peace, giving rest to the weary, giving home and joy, encouraging, loving liberating, and changing peoples' lives for eternity.
	www.csm.org /losangeles.php (1155 words)

	Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The Los Angeles coastal area was occupied by the Tongva, Chumash, and even earlier Native American peoples for thousands of years.
		Los Angeles was incorporated as a city in 1850.
		The Watts riots in 1965 reminded the country of the deep racial divisions that even the nation's youngest city faced.
	www.losangeleslakers.us /history.html (458 words)

	Black History Plays Skits
		Watts Riot of 1965, the first major racially-fueled rebellion of the 1960s, an event that foreshadowed the widespread urban violence of the latter half of the decade.
		These studies also found that the protesters' anger was directed primarily at white shopkeepers in the neighborhood and at members of the all-white Los Angeles police force.
		The Watts Riot was the first major lesson for American public on the tinderbox volatility of segregated inner-city neighborhoods.
	www.africanaonline.com /reports_watts.htm (392 words)

	Los Angeles Herald - California News
		LOS ANGELES – A televised celebrity murder trial seemed unlikely to happen again after the infamous O.J. Simpson trial, which damaged the reputations of the judge, the lawyers, the media and...
		California's stem cell research sector received a boost Friday after 11 non-profit and academic institutions were granted 75.7 million U.S. dollars to help fund their work.
		LOS ANGELES – A former Catholic priest already accused in a child molestation case pleaded not guilty Friday to separate charges of having sex with a 15-year-old boy.
	story.losangelesherald.com /index.php/ct/10/id/805170b4ac37e387 (1759 words)

	African Americans - Los Angeles Watts Riot of 1965
		protesters' anger was directed primarily at white shopkeepers in the neighborhood and at members of the all-white Los Angeles police force.
		The Watts Riot changed California's political landscape and damaged a number of political careers, including that of Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown.
		The liberal Brown lost his office to challenger Ronald Reagan, in part because Reagan was able to pin the blame on the incumbent for the riot.
	www.africanamericans.com /WattsRiots.htm (390 words)

	Jordan Downs, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jordan Downs is a 700-unit public housing apartment complex in Watts, Los Angeles, California.
		The complex is owned and managed by the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles.
		It is the home of the Grape Street Watts Crips, and the south side watts varrio grape street 13 tiny wynos.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jordan_Downs,_Los_Angeles,_California (130 words)

	Los Angeles, California CA, city profile (Los Angeles County) - hotels, festivals, genealogy, newspapers - ePodunk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		California > All counties > Los Angeles County > Los Angeles
		Los Angeles is a city in Los Angeles County.
		In the mid-1800s, Los Angeles was a rough cow town, with frequent violence between Anglos and Mexicans.
	www.epodunk.com /cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=10442 (1222 words)

	Los Angeles, California
		Los Angeles, located on the Pacific coast of southern California, is the largest city in the state.
		Today, metro Los Angeles is the nation's largest manufacturing area, home to one of its busiest ports, the distribution hub of the west coast and a gateway to Asia.
		Los Angeles is very diverse, with people from over 140 countries and the largest Latin-American and Asian-American populations of any US city.
	www.citytowninfo.com /places/california/los-angeles (919 words)

	Watts Towers & Art Center \| Museum/Attraction Review \| Los Angeles \| Frommers.com
		Watts became notorious as the site of riots in the summer of 1965, during which 34 people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured.
		Today, a visit to Watts is a lesson in inner-city life.
		Although there's not much for the casual tourist here, the Watts Towers are truly a unique attraction, and the adjoining art gallery illustrates the fierce determination of area residents to maintain cultural integrity.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/losangeles/A25016.html (342 words)

	Los Angeles - Watts, California - Simon Rodia - Watts Junk Towers
		Views of late 1950's Watts, along with Rodia walking the railroad tracks, looking for construction materials, climbing the towers, and various views of the Towers.
		In a lot of photos, you don't see that the Watts Towers are not just metal -- they are very artfully decorated with colorful glass and pottery.
		Such was the lot of Simon Rodia, an Italian immigrant who designed and built (without the aid of ladders) Watts Towers, the tallest of which is almost 100 feet high.
	www.roadsideamerica.com /tips/getAttraction.php3?tip_AttractionNo==2776 (426 words)

	Watts, Los Angeles, California Real Estate and Homes for Sale - Trulia
		Compare Los Angeles neighborhoods and ZIP codes by average home prices, median home prices, price per square foot, popularity, and more.
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		View our Los Angeles real estate guide to see average listing prices, sale prices and information for local school districts.
	www.trulia.com /CA/Los_Angeles,7242,Watts (670 words)

	Watts Riots, 40 Years Later - Los Angeles Times
		To many, the events that began in Watts on Aug. 11, 1965, remain a riot, pure and simple — a social breakdown into mob rule and criminality.
		The deeper causes, as documented by the McCone Commission, which investigated the riots, were poverty, inequality, racial discrimination and the passage, in November 1964, of Proposition 14 on the California ballot.
		Eventually, the National Guard put a cordon around a vast region of South Los Angeles that ranged as far east as Alameda Street, as far west as Crenshaw Boulevard, and from just south of the Santa Monica Freeway to about Rosecrans Avenue.
	www.latimes.com /news/local/la-me-watts11aug11,0,7619426.story?coll=la-home-headlines (959 words)

	Watts 40th - Watts Renaissance: 1965-2005
		The Watts Summer Festival is one of the oldest African American cultural festivals in the United States.
		Growing from the ashes of the 1965 Watts Revolt, it was conceived in 1966 and incorporated in 1968 with the intent of redirecting the energies of our community into tangible, positive alternatives and solutions by developing community pride, cultural awareness, and political consciousness.
		The Watts Renaissance Planning Committee consists of neighborhood leaders, residents and concerned citizens who have come together to plan a “renaissance” in the Watts community in the City of Los Angeles.
	www.wattsrenaissance.org (665 words)

	Architecture of Los Angeles, CA - Great Buildings Online
		Ralph Johnson House, by Harwell Hamilton Harris, at Los Angeles, California, 1949 to 1951.
		Storer Residence, by Frank Lloyd Wright, at Los Angeles, California, 1923.
		Watts Towers, by Simon Rodia, at Los Angeles, California, 1921 to 1955.
	www.greatbuildings.com /places/los_angeles.html (209 words)

	Los Angeles
		When parts of Rancho San Rafael were sold, Tomás Sánchez, Sheriff of Los Angeles County, purchased a tract of 100 acres and in 1865 built this artistic adobe of the hacienda type, restored in 1932.
		Francisco Lugo was a prominent early landholder and Antonio served as the Alcalde of Los Angeles.
		The towns of Hynes and Clearwater, which later incorporated to become Paramount, were in the middle of Los Angeles County’s extensive region of dairy farms that thrived during the first half of the twentieth century.
	ohp.parks.ca.gov /default.asp?page_id=21427 (8054 words)

	Sources for the Study of the 1965 Watts Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		California reacted with Proposition 14, which moved to block the fair housing components of the Civil Rights Act.
		The Cause of the 1965 Watts Riot and a Photographic Essay of the Watts Festival Activities.
		Los Angeles: National Association of Social Workers, 1967.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/la/watts.html (371 words)

	African American Registry: Rodney King riots erupt in Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Like Los Angeles' Watts Riot of 1965, the 1992 rioting was sparked by an act of anti-Black police brutality.
		On March 3, 1991, police officers in Los Angeles, California, stopped a car driven by a 34-year-old African-American named Rodney King, who, they said, was speeding.
		Writing about the riot in a 1992 essay "Learning to Talk of Race," philosopher Cornel West suggested "what we witnessed in Los Angeles was the consequence of a lethal linkage of economic decline, cultural decay, and political lethargy in American life.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/850/Rodney_King_riots_erupt_in_Los_Angeles (547 words)

	Watts Towers of Simon Rodia SHP
		The Watts Towers are a complex set of 17 separate sculptural pieces built on a residential lot in the community of Watts.
		The Los Angeles City Cultural Affairs Department, through the Watts Towers Arts Center, provides diverse cultural enrichment programming through tours, lectures, changing exhibits and studio workshops for both teachers and school children.
		Please be advised, Watts Towers of Simon Rodia SHP is one of the few California State Parks that does not accept the Annual Day Use Pass.
	www.parks.ca.gov /default.asp?page_id=613 (321 words)

	Los Angeles MLS in California, find a home, search the Los Angeles mls in California 90001, 90002, 90003, 90004 ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		We also have information on Los Angeles home selling, home buying, and mortgages for anyone looking to sell a home or buy a home in Los Angeles, California.
		MLSonline.com provides Los Angeles, California real estate information and resources to homeowners and homebuyers through the process of selling and buying a house, condo or other Los Angeles realty property.
		MLSonline.com has services to help you find a top Los Angeles real estate agent or mortgage broker, get the value of your Los Angeles home and a comparative market analysis (CMA), view Los Angeles real estate and MLS listings, get Los Angeles Just Listed Homes email notifications, prepare your home for sale, and more.
	www.mlsonline.com /user/user_territory.php?location=63996 (268 words)

	A Huey P. Newton Story - Times - Watts Riots \| PBS
		However, states acted to circumvent the new federal law, including California that created Proposition 14, which moved to block the fair housing section of the Act.
		On August 11, 1965, Los Angeles's South Central neighborhood of Watts became a scene of the greatest example of racial tension America had seen.
		A Los Angeles police officer pulled over motorist Marquette Frye [who was with his brother Ronald]; he suspected Marquette of driving drunk.
	www.pbs.org /hueypnewton/times/times_watts.html (305 words)

	AllRefer.com - Watts, California (CA) (Los Angeles County) - (suburb) - Facts and Information
		Watts, suburban section of Los Angeles, Los Angeles co., S Calif., 6 mi/9.7 km S of downtown Los Angeles.
		Historically an impoverished fl ghetto, Watts was the site of 6 days of race riots in 1965 that claimed 34 lives and caused over $200 million in property damage.
		Race riots again erupted in 1992 after the acquittal of white police officers who beat a fl motorist; 58 people died and approximately $1 billion in property was destroyed.
	reference.allrefer.com /gazetteer/W/W01320-watts.html (242 words)

	Architectural Resources Group: Conservation - Watts Towers
		Fully encompassing a triangular lot and reaching a height of almost 100 feet at the highest point, the towers contain numerous individual elements made of steel armature, wire mesh, and concrete.
		The towers were designated a Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Monument in 1963, which is only one of four National Historic Landmarks in the city of Los Angeles.
		During a 2003 inspection, fissures were observed above the 60-foot height in the tallest central tower, and significant fissures were found in the ornamental cementitious slab on grade.
	www.argsf.com /projconservation_watts.shtml (173 words)

	NarrowLarry's World of the Outstanding - The Watts Towers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		In 1921, in the Watts district of Los Angeles, a poor Italian immigrant named Sabato (Simon) Rodia purchased a small house on a triangular piece of property and soon starting building one of the world's most unique creations.
		Four years after Rodia left Los Angeles, the Los Angeles Building Department made plans to demolish the "pile of junk".
		The Watts Towers are today owned by the city that tried to tear them down.
	www.narrowlarry.com /nlwatts.html (330 words)

	Architecture in Los Angeles, California
		The rail can be viewed from the lower station, from California Plaza (the upper station), and a staircase that follows the track.
		Photography: A nice view of the side facing Los Angeles can be gained by taking a walking trail near the east side of the building.
		Photography: The Tower is the tallest building in Los Angeles, so it will figure prominently in any panorama of downtown.
	mintaka.sdsu.edu /faculty/erics/web/arcangeles.html (1796 words)

	Violence in the Community: Selected Reference Resources
		Published in cooperation with the Institute of Government and Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles.
		A study of the Watts riots of August 1965.
		The UNIA and Black Los Angeles : Ideology and Community in the American Garvey Movement.
	www.lib.lsu.edu /hum/mlk/srs213.html (493 words)

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