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History > USA > Civil rights > L.A. > Watts riots
August 11-16, 1965 / 15 March 1966
Children in the Watts neighbourhood of Los Angeles, 1966.
The graffiti on the store front indicates black ownership and support of violence, in the wake of the Watts riots
Photograph: The Life Picture Collection/Getty Images
Life magazine photographer Bill Ray – in pictures Bill Ray, primarily known for his work for Life magazine, has died aged 84. Born in Nebraska in 1936, he graduated from local newspapers to a staff job on Life, and photographed 46 covers for Newsweek. He was famed for his images of celebrities, and also covered the aftermath of the Watts riots and the Hells Angels motorcycle club in their its days G Mon 20 Jan 2020 13.19 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/
Police officers search youths in LA's Watts district.
Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis
Trouble in Watts, LA - a picture from the past On 15th March 1966, police search a group of black youths during disturbances in the Watts neighbourhood of Los Angeles. This flare up came 8 months after the deadly 1965 riots G Saturday 15 March 2014 11.27 GMT
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2014/mar/15/
Title: Governor Brown and Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty exit riot conference Shown following riot conference. Governor Brown and Mayor Yorty
Creator/Contributor: Los Angeles Times (Firm), Publisher Gaunt, Jack, Photographer Date: March 15, 1966
Contributing Institution: Dept of Special Collections/UCLA Library, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, 405 Hilgard Ave, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575; http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb6b69p15c/
Armed National Guardsmen moved toward smoke on the horizon during the street fires of the Watts riots in Los Angeles in August 1965.
Photograph: Hulton Archive, via Getty Images
Watts, 50 Years On, Stands in Contrast to Today’s Conflicts NYT AUG. 10, 2015
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/
When the Watts neighborhood erupted in riots in 1965, Mr. Wasser chronicled a city at war with itself.
Photograph: Julian Wasser
Julian Wasser, the ‘Photographer Laureate’ of L.A., Dies at 89 In the 1960s and ’70s, he created indelible images of the city’s combustible mix of art, rock ’n’ roll, new Hollywood and social ferment. NYT Feb. 14, 2023
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/14/
Watts riots August 11-16, 1965 / 15 March 1966
On 15th March 1966, police search a group of black youths during disturbances in the Watts neighbourhood of Los Angeles.
This flare up came 8 months after the deadly 1965 riots http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2014/mar/15/watts-race-riot-photography
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/picture/2014/mar/15/
August 11-16, 1965
Watts riots
The largest urban riot of the civil rights era
The southwestern district of Los Angeles - Watts - erupts in fire, looting and violent protests as thousands of black people take to the streets to demonstrate against social injustices.
The riots leave 34 dead and more than 1,000 injured
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2020/jan/20/
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2015/08/14/
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/13/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/us/
http://www.npr.org/2015/08/08/
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