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Charles Robert Watts (2 June 1941 – 24 August 2021) was an English musician who was the drummer of the Rolling Stones from 1963 until his death in 2021.. Originally trained as a graphic artist, Watts developed an interest in jazz at a young age and joined the band Blues Incorporated.
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
Watts was born in Eufaula in McIntosh County, Oklahoma [1] to J. C. "Buddy" Watts Sr., and Helen Watts (d. 1992). [2] His father was a Baptist minister, cattle trader, [ 3 ] the first black police officer in Eufaula, [ 4 ] and a member of the Eufaula City Council. [ 5 ]
The Watts Writers Workshop was a creative writing group initiated by screenwriter Budd Schulberg in the wake of the devastating August 1965 Watts Riots in South Central Los Angeles (now South Los Angeles). Schulberg later said: "In a small way, I wanted to help....
Little remembered today, Wattstax — 'the Black Woodstock' — drew nearly 100,000 fans to the L.A. Coliseum for a day of Black pride and transcendent soul music. 50 years ago, the Wattstax ...
After the assassination of Malcolm X in February 1965 and the Watts riots the following August, the Black Congress was founded as a community-rebuilding effort in Watts. Two BC members, Maulana Karenga and Hakim Jamal, began a discussion group focused on black nationalist ideas, called the "circle of seven."
"Negro History Week, and later Black History Month, provided, and still provides, a counterpoint to the narratives that either ignore the contributions of Black Americans or misrepresent the history."
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.