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A companion website to the feature film on the founder of the Black Panther party ... 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.
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www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/times/times_watts.html
www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/times/times_watts.html
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Situationist defense and analysis of 1965 Watt riot. ... 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 black solidarity did not extend to black store-owners or even to black car-drivers.
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www.bopsecrets.org/SI/10.Watts.htm
www.bopsecrets.org/SI/10.Watts.htm
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A selection of articles related to Watts Riot ... A Wisdom Archive on Watts Riot ... ARTICLES RELATED TO Watts Riot...
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www.experiencefestival.com/watts_riot
www.experiencefestival.com/watts_riot
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This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them ... Watts in Perspective ... Images of the Riot...
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Stephanie examines the causes and events of the Watts Riots of 1965 and the Rodney King Riot of 1992. She shows how South Central Los Angeles has healed itself through community organizations such as the Watts Labor Community Action Committee. ... The Watts Riot of 1965 had begun.
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www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester2/031701/031701stephwatt...
www.ustrek.org/odyssey/semester2/031701/031701stephwatts.html
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On Wednesday August 11, 1965 rioting broke out in the Watts area of Los Angeles, following the arrest of a suspected drunk driver by California Highway Patrol officers. Law Enforcement agencies hadn't ... Or a traffic car being dispatched to take a non-injury traffic accident report in the middle of the riot area.
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harrymarnell.net/1965.htm
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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]. I take strong issue, however, with the conclusions he... ... By Roger Wilkins...
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www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/2...
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/22/AR2005082201111.html
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WATTS (California): Forty years after one of the worst riots in US history, the black community remains divided over the significance ... In 1992 another major riot erupted following the beating of black motorist Rodney King by white policemen in Los Angeles, violence that left 54 dead and caused one billion dollars damage.
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www.dawn.com/2005/08/14/int17.htm
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The divisions are still there, 40 years later. ... 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. To others, they were a revolt, a rebellion, an uprising — a violent but justified leap into a future of black self-empowerment.
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www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-watts11aug11,0,4693415...
www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-watts11aug11,0,4693415,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines
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