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Later, Watts was a part of the Compton School District, but in January 1914, a mass meeting was held in Watts to make plans to secede from Compton and build a new high school in Watts, at a cost of about $100,000. [60] Later the same month, Watts boosters made the same statement at a meeting with Compton backers in that city. [61]
Compton is a city located in the Gateway Cities region of southern Los Angeles County, ... Following the Watts riots in 1965, crime in Compton rose sharply. Although ...
The Watts Cemetery Chapel or Watts Mortuary Chapel is a chapel in a Modern Style (British Art Nouveau style) version of Celtic Revival in the village cemetery of Compton in Surrey. The designer was Mary Fraser-Tytler , an artist resident in the village, who married the painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts .
Watts Gallery – Artists' Village is an art gallery in the village of Compton, near Guildford in Surrey. It is dedicated to the work of the Victorian-era painter and sculptor George Frederic Watts. The gallery has been Grade II* listed on the National Heritage List for England since June 1975. [1]
The Watts Towers, Towers of Simon Rodia, or Nuestro Pueblo [5] ("our town" in Spanish) are a collection of 17 interconnected sculptural towers, architectural structures, and individual sculptural features and mosaics within the site of the artist's original residential property in Watts, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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 ...
California State University Dominguez Hills, Compton Community College, and Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science are the only institutions of higher education in the district. The high school graduation rate is 63.9% [4] and bachelor's degree or higher 13.4%
The 43rd takes in the cities of Hawthorne, Inglewood, Lawndale, Gardena, Compton, northeast Torrance, the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts, and the census-designated places Lennox, Del Aire, Alondra Park, West Athens, Westmont, West Rancho Dominguez, Willowbrook, and East Rancho Dominguez.