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	Watts Riots - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This pattern of rioting continued all across the country in cities such as New York in 1964 and 1968, Detroit and Newark in 1967, San Francisco in 1966, Washington, DC in 1968, Baltimore in 1967 and 1968, and Chicago and Cleveland both in 1968.
		The riots were also a response to Proposition 14, a constitutional amendment sponsored by the California Real Estate Association that had in effect repealed the Rumford Fair Housing Act.
		A fictitious version of the Watts riots are depicted in the NBC miniseries The '60s.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watts_riots (889 words)

	Watts, Los Angeles, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Three of Watts' most notorious gangs—Grape Street Watts Crips, Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, and PJ Watts Crips—formed a cease-fire agreement after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a pact that may have been tied to a decrease in crime in the area between 1992 and 2000.
		In July 2005, Watts returned to the news when a police SWAT team accidentally killed 18-month-old Suzy Peña who was held hostage by her father at a used-car lot in the area.
		Watts is bordered by the cities of South Gate on the east and Lynwood on the southeast, and the unincorporated areas of Willowbrook on the south and Florence on the north.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Watts,_Los_Angeles,_California (1212 words)

	The Legacy of the Watts Riots
		Underlying that agenda was their assertion that the riots were a direct consequence of fl oppression and their warning that the riots were harbingers of a greater fire next time.
		The Kerner Commission Report, the foundation for the pervasive national mythology of the riots, was dramatically influenced by Shellow’s “Harvest.” The Kerner report preserved Shellow’s view that fls were a colonized race living under oppression, and that it was the larger society, not the rioters, that had to answer for the riots.
		Riots often occur because of the immediate gratification of the violence and the carnival atmosphere of the moment.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=19093 (2062 words)

	Paradox Unbound: The Watts Riots: 40 Years Later
		The Riots were a monumental event not only for this city, but also for the nation, as they reflected the ongoing battle for civil rights and presaged several other large-scale riots that would ravage many other cities in the "long, hot summers" of the late 1960's.
		Even within Watts itself, only 34% of the the housing was owner-occupied in 1965, and many properties were owned by people from other parts of the city who charged exorbitant rates because their tenants had nowhere else to go.
		The Black population in Watts, faced by the daily indignities of police mistreatment and outright brutality, along with economic "colonization" by property owners and retailers from outside the community, may have realized it was time to fight violence with violence, to answer oppression and exploitation with destruction.
	www.mitchglaser.com /journal/2005/08/watts-riots-40-years-later.html (4896 words)

	Youth Radio
		Rioting, looting and violent protesting in the street lasted for six days and left behind 34 dead, over 1,000 wounded and an estimated $100 million in property damage.
		Youth living in Watts today are 40 years removed form the riots in 1965, so their information is second or third hand.
		Watts community center tended to romanticize and glorify the period before the riots.
	www.youthradio.org /society/yrla050812_watts.shtml (460 words)

	watts.html
		Watts, a 2.5 square mile section of South-East Los Angeles, was originally part of a Mexican land grant subdivided during the 1880s into a grid of small residential lots.
		His experience in Watts was an important factor in the arts education projects for community based arts programs, as well as for educational programs at the state's larger arts institutions, which he helped to create and fund in his new position.
		Not the least important is the role of Watts' experimental arts projects as a model for artists' participation in the community, and for the arts as a central part of education.
	www.marquette.edu /haggerty/exhibitions/past/watts/watts.html (5928 words)

	Watts riots - history - central - British Council - LearnEnglish
		Watts is an impoverished district with a 90 per cent Negro population, most of them unskilled workers and many of them recent immigrants from the South-East.
		Before the riots 40 per cent of the adult population were unemployed, and illiteracy, broken homes, crime, prostitution, drug addiction, and alcoholism are common.
		The riots in the Watts district were officially declared ended on Aug. 16, the curfew being lifted on the following day; on Aug. 18, however, police who tried to search a Black Muslim mosque for arms were fired on, about 10 people being wounded in the ensuing gun battle and 50 arrested.
	www.britishcouncil.org /cz/learnenglish-central-history-watts-riots.htm (516 words)

	'The riots' in Watts have little tie to today \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Teens who skateboard past abandoned couches and fading apartments say they've heard of "the riots," but they mean the 1992 violence sparked by the acquittal of officers in the videotaped beating of Rodney King.
		Those who lived through the Watts riots that began Aug. 11, 1965, are struggling to pass along their story.
		Watts was a tinderbox in 1965, one of the few Los Angeles neighborhoods where fls were allowed to live.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050811/news_1n11watts.html (544 words)

	Watts Riots, 40 Years Later - Los Angeles Times
		To mark the 40th anniversary of the riots, The Times asked nine people, all of whom witnessed the events firsthand, to recount their memories of six days that changed their lives and the course of the city.
		The riots that summer were sparked by the arrest of a fl motorist, Marquette Frye, for drunk driving.
		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.
	www.latimes.com /news/local/la-me-watts11aug11,0,4693415,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines (4374 words)

	Watts riots - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The Watts Riots was a large-scale civil disorder lasting six days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in 1965.
		During the riots, 34 people were officially reported killed, 1,100 people were injured, 4,000 people were arrested, 600 buildings were damaged or destroyed, and an estimated $100 million in damage was caused.
		In the Watts area one out of eight adults lacked a high school education, drugs were rampant throughout the neighborhood, poverty and unemployment were higher in this section of Los Angeles than any other neighborhood.
	voyager.in /Watts_riots (836 words)

	Watts Riots 1965
		During the course of the riots, there were 34 deaths, 1,000 injuries, and 4,000 arrests.
		The riots were squelched by 20,000 national guardsmen who were called in by California Governor Brown.
		The riots in Watts were the worst of a series of disturbances that broke out in many inner cities in the summer of 1965, and in the following summers during the mid sixties.
	www.multied.com /sixty/60's/watts.html (92 words)

	The Watts Riots, Burned Into Memory
		John McWhorter is right to say that we ought to pause and remember the Watts riots of 40 years ago and ponder their implication for America's present and future ["Burned, Baby, Burned: Watts and the Tragedy of Black America," Outlook, Aug. 14].
		He writes that he was born two months after the riots occurred and that his conclusions are based on his research on the subject.
		And Watts and the explosions that followed helped fuel a conservative backlash that undermined the massive effort needed to address the problems it exposed.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/22/AR2005082201111_pf.html (914 words)

	Watts
		But in August of 1965, in those days of the event that became known as the Watts riots, the contribution to journalism by Robert Richardson was enormous.
		Watts was a turning point; Richardson's reporting was a part of bringing that to the public.
		Before the riots, Thomas said, the south Los Angeles area was seldom referred to as Watts.
	www.maynardije.org /news/features/caldwell/Chapter15 (1025 words)

	Watts - HVAC Manufacturers News & Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Alan Watts (1915-1973) who held both a master's degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best known as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and Indian and Chinese philosophy in general.
		Watts is bordered by the cities of South Gate on the east and Lynwood on the southeast, and the...
		Watts was serious-minded, lacked a sense of humour, and was...
	www.acheatingventilation.com /manufacturers/Watts.html (2514 words)

	Watts 40th - Watts Renaissance: 1965-2005
		The events in Watts of August 1965 - the so-called "Watts Riots" - were among the most significant developments in America during the 1960ies, profoundly affecting the City of Los Angeles, the State of California and the entire country.
		In California, the 1965 Watts Revolt (together with student protests in Berkeley) lead to the election of Ronald Reagan as Governor in 1966, as an increasingly conservative, suburban white electorate grew fearful of events that suggested an unraveling of the social order.
		The Watts Renaissance is a united effort by Watts residents and organizations to study and develop effective steps to address these issues.
	www.wattsrenaissance.org /pubpolicy.html (406 words)

	The 1965 Watts Riot (Situationist International) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Until the Watts explosion, fl civil rights demonstrations had been kept by their leaders within the limits of a legal system that tolerates the most appalling violence on the part of the police and the racists — as in last March’s march on Montgomery, Alabama.
		The Watts riot was not a racial conflict: the rioters left alone the whites who were in their path, attacking only the white policemen, while on the other hand fl solidarity did not extend to fl store-owners or even to fl car-drivers.
		The Watts youth, having no future in market terms, grasped another quality of the present, and that quality was so incontestable and irresistible that it drew in the whole population — women, children, and even sociologists who happened to be on the scene.
	www.bopsecrets.org /SI/10.Watts.htm (3303 words)

	A Huey P. Newton Story - Times - Watts Riots \| PBS
		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.
		After the Watts Riots, then Governor Pat Brown named John McCone to head a commission to study the riots.
		The report issued by the Commission concluded that the riots weren't the act of thugs, but rather symptomatic of much deeper problems: the high jobless rate in the inner city, poor housing, and bad schools.
	www.pbs.org /hueypnewton/times/times_watts.html (305 words)

	144 Hours in August 1965 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		At this moment, rioting was breaking out again, and the police felt that their established procedures were the only way to handle what was developing as another night of rioting.
		He briefed the Governor on the current riot situation, and Brown said he felt the Guard should be called immediately, that the possibility of a curfew should be explored, and that he was heading home as fast as possible.
		The maximum commitment of the Los Angeles Police Department during the riot period was 934 officers; the maximum for the Sheriff's Office was 719 officers.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/cityinstress/mccone/part4.html (4712 words)

	USATODAY.com - Katrina stirs memories of Watts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		Watts would be defined as an uprising of the dispossessed against the society that had left them behind — "the first major rebellion of Negroes against their own masochism," according to civil rights strategist Bayard Rustin.
		Unquestionably, the riot reflected the widespread discontent of ordinary fl citizens and not merely the criminal impulses of bad actors.
		In Watts, the poverty rate today — 46% — is higher than it was in 1965.
	www.usatoday.com /news/opinion/editorials/2005-09-18-katrina-watts-edit_x.htm (851 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)

	Watts plus 40: 'We want to see solutions to poverty' \| The-Tidings.com
		At the morning outdoor press conference, the Watts Renaissance Committee launched an initiative targeting education, employment, policing, crime, healthcare, transportation and business development in Watts --- a two-mile-square area bordered by 92nd Street on the north and Imperial Highway on the south, Central Avenue on the west and Alameda Street on the east.
		The renaissance project was an expression of unity, according to Timothy Watkins, president and CEO of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee, bringing together the Chamber of Commerce and Rotary, churches and other nonprofits to work as a team.
		The community activist who helped found the Watts Summer Festival stressed that this incident that sparked the nation's first major race riot of the '60s was often referred to as "routine" in reports by various commissions.
	www.the-tidings.com /2005/0819/watts.htm (1273 words)

	Mohonasen History: The 60's World Around Us Watts Page
		By: Michelle C. The Watts Riot was a violent disturbance made by protesters.
		Some of the things that caused the people of Watts neighborhood to riot was, not enough jobs or schooling were available to fl people.
		This is a riot and a time period that everyone will remember, especially the police officers.
	www.mohonasen.org /staffdev/mhistory/Summersell2/mhwor60watts.htm (450 words)

	Sources for the Study of the 1965 Watts Riots (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
		The following are some of the many sources available in the University Library at USC which are useful for the study of the 1965 riots in Watts.
		The Cause of the 1965 Watts Riot and a Photographic Essay of the Watts Festival Activities.
		Riots in the City: An Addendum to the McCone Commission Report.
	www.usc.edu /isd/archives/la/watts.html (371 words)

	@history: Primary Sources
		The following account was drawn from the records of the Los Angeles police and compiled by the California Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles riots, chaired by John McCone.
		Though the commission felt that a small number of criminals were responsible for the riots, they estimated that at least seven thousand people took part in the uprising.
		One rioter stationed himself a block from the intersection of Avalon Blvd. and Imperial Highway, where the major group of rioters was centered, and signaled to this group whenever a vehicle driven by a Caucasian approached the intersection, so that it could be stoned.
	college.hmco.com /history/us/norton/people_nation/5e/students/primary/watts.htm (1144 words)

	NPR : 40th Anniversary of the Watts Riots
		August 11, 2005 · Saturday is the 40th anniversary of the Watts riots that destroyed whole blocks of a Los Angeles neighborhood.
		August 11, 2005 · The Watts Riots began in Los Angeles 40 years ago Thursday, a six-day eruption of racial frustration that left 34 people dead, hundreds more injured and scores of buildings damaged, looted or destroyed.
		June 1, 2005 · Karen Grigsby Bates tours the South Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts with journalist Karl Fleming, who was nearly beaten to death during a racial protest in the summer of 1966.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4794946 (559 words)

	INSTANT HISTORY \| Bryce Zabel: Watts Riots: Burn, Baby, Burn
		40 years ago today, the Watts riots transfixed the nation in an explosion of racial violence that, when it was over, left 36 dead, 900 reported injured, over 4,000 arrested and at least $200 million dollars of property damage.
		This 1965 Newsweek marks one of the first national appearances of the 60s phrase "Burn, Baby, Burn." Made infamous by the riots, it was first used by a disc jockey known as Magnificent Montague when he was working in New York and Chicago in '63 and '64.
		The latest post features the Watts riots 40 years ago, with a Newsweek cover photo and excerpts.
	bztv.typepad.com /instanthistory/2005/08/watts_riots_40t.html (772 words)

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