I was 17 in 1965 and was preparing for entering High School as a Senior in the Fall. I remember seeing the black smoke of Watts rise up about 25 miles away from where I lived. at night white people there in Glendale which was an all white neighborhood then were practicing shooting their rifles in case any black people came into Glendale then they would shoot them. I personally found the white shooters far more terrifying than anything that was going on in Watts at the time. You would call these types of white people
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On 17 August 1965, Martin Luther King arrived in Los Angeles in the aftermath of the riots. His experiences over the next several days reinforced his growing ...
Jul 29, 2015 - What was the cost in lives and property? The front page of the Los Angeles Times on Aug. 15, 1965. Click the image above to see more Times ...
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