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3,438. 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 ...
Buildings on fire along Avalon Boulevard at 108th Street during the Watts riots, 1965. Longstanding resentment by Los Angeles's working class black community over discriminatory treatment by police and inadequate public services (especially schools and hospitals) exploded on August 11, 1965, into what were commonly known as the Watts riots. [3]
November 1966 – January 1967 [1] Location. West Hollywood, California, United States. Parties. LAPD. hippies. The Sunset Strip curfew riots, also known as the " hippie riots", were a series of early counterculture -era clashes that took place between police and young people on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood, California, United States in 1966.
The uprising started Aug. 11, 1965, in a nearby neighborhood after the drunken driving arrest of a young Black man by a white California Highway Patrol officer.
Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles. [2][3] The concert took place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on August 20, 1972. The concert's performers included all of Stax's prominent artists at the time.
Damage. $1 billion. The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) [ 4 ][ 5 ] were a series of riots and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California, United States, during April and May 1992. Unrest began in South Central Los Angeles on April 29, after ...
The riots resulted in over 150 deaths and over 20,000 arrests. [3] [4] Soldiers direct traffic away from an area of South Central Los Angeles burning during the 1965 Watts riot 1967 Newark riots. The momentum for the advancement of civil rights came to a sudden halt with riots in the Watts district of Los Angeles in 1965.
Rodney Glen King (April 2, 1965 – June 17, 2012) was an African-American man who was a victim of police brutality. On March 3, 1991, he was severely beaten by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) during his arrest after a high speed pursuit for driving while intoxicated on the I-210.