But while violence broke out in various parts of the city, there were no violent protests in Watts, the neighborhood in South Los Angeles that has been the site of notorious race riots. That dynamic ...

The Watts Rebellion ... Black police officers that was the last straw. For six days, riots covered more than 50-mile area of Los Angeles, that left 34 mostly Black citizens dead –– 26 of ...

The city of L.A. should take some lessons from the southeastern suburbs in the county. Paramount, South Gate and others ...

The scale of the violence at Watts bears no relation whatsoever to ... nothing of this sort should have happened in or around Los Angeles. And I don’t think that any of us should make a finger ...

WATTS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- A candlelight vigil in Watts honored the lives and neighborhoods impacted by the fires. Among those who died in the recent wildfires was 82-year-old Rodney Nickerson ...

A week after the savage Watts riots last August ... gap between the educational levels of whites and Negroes in Los Angeles schools, it-urged a one-third reduction of class size in Negro schools ...

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass was out of the country when the fires ignited. Her absence was palpably felt, reminiscent of Gov. Pat Brown in Greece when the Watts riots erupted in 1965 or LA Mayor ...

The California FAIR Plan Association, the state's property insurer of last resort, was born of smoldering ashes — not of a wildfire, but of one of the ...

Within a year of the riots Hank Leyvas and ... African American section of Watts and another group headed east for Mexican American East Los Angeles. Al Waxman, editor of the Eastside Journal ...

Poverty led to social problems across America. Dr Martin Luther King Jnr blamed poverty as a cause of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles in 1965.