Police officers stand guard on Aug. 13, 1965, as debris is cleared from Avalon Boulevard and Imperial Highway. (Ray Graham/Los Angeles Times) On Aug. 11, 1965, 60 years ago, I stood transfixed with ...
FILE - In this Aug. 12, 1965, file photo, demonstrators push against a police car in the Los Angeles area of Watts. Watts has been associated with an uprising in 1965 that led to burned-down buildings ...
In the community of Watts Monday, Los Angeles Police officers, community leaders, and citizens took a knee together, acknowledging what unites them in a powerful symbol of solidarity while looking ...
Sixty years ago, a young Black man from South Los Angeles was pulled over by a white California Highway Patrol officer after another motorist reported the man driving recklessly. What started as a ...
LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — There were no fires this time in Watts. There was no looting, no shooting and no National Guard troops patrolling. Protesters filled the streets around the country in late May ...
Tim Watkins, president of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee, talks about the lingering effects of the 1965 unrest on the South-Central area of Los Angeles. Watkins' father founded the ...
When earlier this year AP photographer Jae Hong returned to Los Angeles from Japan, where he had been covering the run-up to the Tokyo Olympics, he set out to do a story on Asian Americans and ...
LOS ANGELESLOS ANGELES — EDITOR’S NOTE: On Aug. 11, 1965, an uprising began in Los Angeles after the drunken driving arrest of a young Black man by a white California Highway Patrol officer. It was ...
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