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Three sworn personnel were killed in the riots: a Los Angeles Fire Department firefighter was struck when a wall of a fire-weakened structure fell on him while fighting fires in a store, [40] a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy was accidentally shot by another deputy while in a struggle with rioters, [41] and a Long Beach Police Department ...
Rapid urbanization has led to the rise of urban riots, often inner city. John F. McDonald and Daniel P. McMillen have identified Los Angeles's Watts Riots, in 1965, as the first "urban riots" in the United States. They were a part of what were known as race riots of the civil rights period. These riots in particular culminated in 1968–1969.
The term ghetto riots, also termed ghetto rebellions, race riots, or negro riots refers to a period of widespread urban unrest and riots across the United States in the mid-to-late 1960s, largely fueled by racial tensions and frustrations with ongoing discrimination, even after the passage of major Civil Rights legislation; highlighting the issues of racial inequality in Northern cities that ...
The United States experienced a series of "long hot summers" of racial unrest during the mid-to-late 1960s. They started with the Harlem riots in July 1964, and the Watts riots in August 1965. During the first nine months of 1967, over 150 riots erupted across American cities. The most destructive riots were in Detroit, Michigan and Newark, New ...
The city of Los Angeles had seen demonstrations in the years preceding with antagonism towards police backlash following the Watts rebellion.The Sunset Strip curfew riots, where police and protesters had clashed due to a curfew on youth-and-counterculture-related venues, had shaken the city and influenced the culture. [3]
Pandora's Box, the nightclub that was at the center of the riots on the Sunset Strip. Whisky a Go Go, the Strip's most prominent rock club. Ernest E. Debs, mid-20th century Los Angeles County supervisor who represented the district and fought against the counterculture. Counterculture of the 1960s; List of incidents of civil unrest in the ...
The L.A. County Board of Supervisors condemns the Zoot Suit Riots that targeted Latino, African American and Filipino youths 80 years ago.
Los Angeles riots may refer to: 1992 Los Angeles riots, following the acquittal of police officers accused of using excessive force against Rodney King; Watts riots, of 1965, following an arrest for drunk driving in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles; Zoot Suit Riots, in 1943, between Anglo servicemen stationed in the city, and Latino youths