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The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, [1] took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles from August 11 to 16, 1965. The riots were motivated by anger at the racist and abusive practices of the Los Angeles Police Department , as well as grievances over employment ...
Heat Wave is a 1990 American thriller-drama television film about the 1965 Los Angeles Watts Riots, directed by Kevin Hooks and starring Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery, and David Strathairn.
Felicia is a 1965 short documentary film directed by UCLA students Bob Dickson, Alan Gorg and Trevor Greenwood. It features an erudite black high school student, Felicia Bragg, discussing her family life, school and future in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California.
Watts, an exclusively Black neighborhood in the 1960s, is now majority Latino. It remains poor, with high unemployment. 55 years after riots, Watts section of LA still bears scars
In the wake of the 1965 Uprising, the community most affected experienced a creative rebirth. Institutions like the Watts Happening Coffee House, the Studio Watts Workshop, the Watts Repertory ...
Watts Village Theater Company launched "Riot/Rebellion," a multi-year project exploring three episodes of L.A. civil unrest: the 1965 Watts uprising, "the 1992 conflagration and the 1943 Zoot Suit riots, in which non-Latino white U.S. servicemen brawled with Mexican Americans and African Americans."
An alum of the Watts Writers Workshop documents the generational evolution of poetry in Watts and Liemert Park as a force for art and change. Place History: The poetry workshops that answered anti ...
Angela Davis at UCLA (October 1969) to give her first lecture Police violence during the Watts Uprising (August 1965) Father William DuBay (1968) Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties is a movement history by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener published in April 2020. The authors combine archival research and personal interviews with their own ...