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579:. However, the situation quickly escalated: someone shoved Price, Frye was struck, Price jumped an officer, and another officer pulled out a shotgun. Backup police officers attempted to arrest Frye by using physical force to subdue him. After community members reported that police had roughed up Frye and shared a rumor they had kicked a pregnant woman, angry mobs formed. As the situation intensified, growing crowds of local residents watching the exchange began yelling and throwing objects at the police officers. Frye's mother and brother fought with the officers and eventually were arrested along with Marquette Frye. 50: 1399: 515:. As a result, housing in South Los Angeles became increasingly scarce, overwhelming the already established communities and providing opportunities for real estate developers. Davenport Builders, for example, was a large developer who responded to the demand, with an eye on undeveloped land in Compton. What was originally a mostly white neighborhood in the 1940s increasingly became an African-American, middle-class dream in which blue-collar laborers could enjoy suburbia away from the slums. 284:. After he failed a field sobriety test, officers attempted to arrest him. Marquette resisted arrest, with assistance from his mother, Rena Frye; a physical confrontation ensued in which Marquette was struck in the face with a baton. Meanwhile, a crowd of onlookers had gathered. Rumors spread that the police had kicked a pregnant woman who was present at the scene. Six days of civil unrest followed, motivated in part by allegations of police abuse. Nearly 14,000 members of the 715:
and looted and 208 buildings completely destroyed, including 14 damaged public buildings and 1 public building completely destroyed. Many white Americans were fearful of the breakdown of social order in Watts, especially since white motorists were being pulled over by rioters in nearby areas and assaulted. Many in the black community, however, believed the rioters were taking part in an "uprising against an oppressive system." In a 1966 essay, black civil rights activist
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while fighting fires in a store, a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy was accidentally shot by another deputy while in a struggle with rioters, and a Long Beach Police Department officer was shot by another police officer during a scuffle with rioters. 23 out of the 34 people killed in the riots were shot by LAPD officers or National Guardsmen.
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Over the course of six days, between 31,000 and 35,000 adults participated in the riots. Around 70,000 people were "sympathetic, but not active." Over the six days, there were 34 deaths, 1,032 injuries, 3,438 arrests, and over $ 40 million in property damage from 769 buildings and businesses damaged
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rookie motorcycle officer Lee Minikus for alleged reckless driving. After Frye failed a field sobriety test, Minikus placed him under arrest and radioed for his vehicle to be impounded. Marquette's brother, Ronald, a passenger in the vehicle, walked to their house nearby, bringing their mother, Rena
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The rioting intensified, and on Friday, August 13, about 2,300 National Guardsmen joined the police in trying to maintain order on the streets. Sergeant Ben Dunn said: "The streets of Watts resembled an all-out war zone in some far-off foreign country, it bore no resemblance to the United States of
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Marquette Frye was convicted of drunk driving, battery and malicious mischief. On February 18, 1966 he received a sentence of 90 days in county jail and three years' probation. He received another 90-day jail term after a jury convicted him of battery and disturbing the peace on May 18, 1966. Over
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The McCone Commission identified the root causes of the riots to be high unemployment, poor schools, and related inferior living conditions that were endured by African Americans in Watts. Recommendations for addressing these problems included "emergency literacy and preschool programs, improved
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Despite allegations that "criminal elements" were responsible for the riots, the vast majority of those arrested had no prior criminal record. 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
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In the post-World War II era, suburbs in the Los Angeles area grew explosively as black residents also wanted to live in peaceful white neighborhoods. In a thinly-veiled attempt to sustain their way of life and maintain the general peace and prosperity, most of these suburbs barred black people,
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After the arrests of Price and her sons, the Frye brothers, the crowd continued to grow along Avalon Boulevard. Police came to the scene to break up the crowd several times that night, but were attacked when people threw rocks and chunks of concrete. A 46-square-mile (120 km) swath of Los
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on December 20, 1986, at age 42. His mother, Rena Price, died on June 10, 2013, at age 97. She never recovered the impounded 1955 Buick which her son had been driving because the storage fees exceeded the car's value. Motorcycle officer Lee Minikus died on October 19, 2013, at age 79.
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directing defense contractors not to discriminate in hiring or promotions, opening up new opportunities for minorities. The black population in Los Angeles dramatically rose from approximately 63,700 in 1940 to about 350,000 in 1965, rising from 4% of L.A.'s population to 14%.
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Debate rose quickly over what had taken place in Watts, as the area was known to be under a great deal of racial and social tension. Reactions and reasoning about the riots greatly varied based on the perspectives of those affected by and participating in the riots' chaos.
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After the Watts Riots, white families left surrounding nearby suburbs like Compton, Huntington Park, and South Gate in large numbers. Although the unrest did not reach these suburbs during the riots, many white residents in Huntington Park, for instance, left the area.
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using a variety of methods. White middle-class people in neighborhoods bordering black districts moved en masse to the suburbs, where newer housing was available. The spread of African Americans throughout urban Los Angeles was achieved in large part through
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After a night of increasing unrest, police and local black community leaders held a community meeting on Thursday, August 12, to discuss an action plan and to urge calm. The meeting failed. Later that day, Chief Parker called for the assistance of the
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took place in Los Angeles to assess the condition of relations between the police force and minorities. These hearings were also intended to make a ruling on the discrimination case against the police for their alleged mistreatment of members of the
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70,000 Japanese-Americans from Los Angeles, leaving empty spaces in predominantly Japanese-owned areas. This further bolstered the migration of black residents into the city during the Second Great Migration to occupy the vacated spaces, such as
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in real estate. By the 1940s, 95% of Los Angeles and southern California housing was off-limits to certain minorities. Minorities who had served in World War II or worked in L.A.'s defense industries returned to face increasing patterns of
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groups who were active in the area protesting high unemployment rates and racial discrimination. Those opinions concerning racism and discrimination were expressed three years after hearings conducted by a committee of the
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police-community ties, increased low-income housing, more job-training projects, upgraded health-care services, more efficient public transportation, and many more." Most of these recommendations were never implemented.
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By nightfall on Saturday, 16,000 law enforcement personnel had been mobilized and patrolled the city. Blockades were established, and warning signs were posted throughout the riot zones threatening the use of
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With so much destruction of residential properties after the Watts Riots, black families began to relocate in other cities that had established black neighborhoods. One of these was the city of
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was passed. At the beginning of the 20th century, Los Angeles was geographically divided by ethnicity, as demographics were being altered by the rapid migration from the Philippines (
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p.m. were subject to arrest. Eventually, nearly 3,500 people were arrested, primarily for curfew violations. By the morning of Sunday, August 15, the riots had largely been quelled.
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When Rena Price reached the intersection of Avalon Boulevard and 116th Street that evening, she scolded Frye about drinking and driving as he recalled in a 1985 interview with the
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were largely confined to local white-owned stores and businesses that were said to have caused resentment in the neighborhood due to low wages and high prices for local workers.
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Resentment of such longstanding racial injustices is cited as reason why Watts' African-American population exploded on August 11, 1965, in what would become the Watts Riots.
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A variety of opinions and explanations were published. Public opinion polls studied in the few years after the riot showed that a majority believed the riots were linked to
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Despite its reform and having a professionalized, military-like police force, William Parker's LAPD faced repeated criticism from the city's Latino and black residents for
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is asked by police to investigate a racially charged murder in neighborhoods where white investigators are unwelcome, takes place in the aftermath of the Watts riots.
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On the evening of Wednesday, August 11, 1965, 21-year-old Marquette Frye, an African-American man driving his mother's 1955 Buick while drunk, was pulled over by
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in 1964, which was sponsored by the California real estate industry, and supported by a majority of white voters. Psychiatrist and civil rights activist
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helped suppress the disturbance, which resulted in 34 deaths, as well as over $ 40 million in property damage. It was the city's worst unrest until the
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of Westminster Presbyterian Church and member of the Los Angeles Board of Education; Mrs. Robert G. Newmann, a League of Women Voters leader; and
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The arrest of the Frye brothers and the riots are referred to by the character George Hutchence in the second volume of the comics miniseries
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at the time) and immigration from Mexico, Japan, Korea, and Southern and Eastern Europe. In the 1910s, the city was already 80% covered by
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America." The first riot-related death occurred on the night of August 13, when a black civilian was killed in the crossfire during a
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Violence in the City – An End or a Beginning?: A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, 1965
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Violence in the City – An End or a Beginning?: A Report by the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, 1965
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and was carried on with the express purpose of asserting that they would no longer quietly submit to the deprivation of slum life.
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to pursue jobs in newly established manufacturing industries; to cement better educational and social opportunities; and to flee
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Jeffries, Vincent & Ransford, H. Edward. "Interracial Social Contact and Middle-Class White Reaction to the Watts Riot".
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opens up with the line "Not since the Watts Riot of 1965, has the city seem so out of control. Los Angeles is still on edge".
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depicts the Watts riots from the perspective of journalist Bob Richardson as a resident of Watts and a reporter for the
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shifts into the body of a black medical student who is engaged to a white woman while living in Watts during the riots.
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Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present: From the Age of Segregation to the Twenty-first Century
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The whole point of the outbreak in Watts was that it marked the first major rebellion of Negroes against their own
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between the police and rioters. Over the next few days, rioting had then spread throughout other areas, including
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from August 11 to 16, 1965. The riots were motivated by anger at the racist and abusive practices of the
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To end mistreatment by the police and to end discrimination in housing, employment, and schooling systems
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The Rumford Fair Housing Act, designed to remedy residential segregation, was overturned by
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to take place there and saw many of those white families move to neighboring cities in the
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was appointed and sworn in as Los Angeles Chief of Police. After a major scandal called
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Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility
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the following year), declaring the amendment to violate the US constitution and laws.
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spoke two days after the riots happened in Watts. The riots were partly a response to
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in large numbers, in response to defense industry recruitment efforts at the start of
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Widespread rioting, looting, assault, arson, protests, firefights, and property damage
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Scenes in "Burn, Baby, Burn, Baby, burn, burn, bird", an episode of the TV series
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franchise stated that the riots inspired the ape uprising featured in the film
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considered Proposition 14 to be one of the causes of black rebellion in Watts.
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investigated the riots, known as the McCone Commission, and headed by former
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Barnhill, John H. (2011). "Watts Riots (1965)". In Danver, Steven L. (ed.).
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the 10-year period following the riots he was arrested 34 times. He died of
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The commission released a 101-page report on December 2, 1965, entitled
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Angeles was transformed into a combat zone during the ensuing six days.
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tells the story of a group of high school seniors during the riots.
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wrote a lyrical commentary inspired by the Watts riots, entitled "
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The politics of violence: The new urban Blacks and the Watts riot
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The riots are occurring in episodes five and six of the TV show
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To quell the riots, Chief Parker initiated a policy of
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Index

Watts riots of 1965
Ghetto riots of the 1960s

Avalon Boulevard
Watts, Los Angeles
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Ghetto riots (1964–1969)
Harlem riot of 1964
1964 Rochester race riot
Dixmoor race riot
1964 Philadelphia race riot
Watts riots
1966 Chicago West Side riots
Hough riots
1966 Perth Amboy riots
Waukegan riot of 1966
1966 Dayton race riot
Hunters Point social uprising
Long, hot summer of 1967
King assassination riots
1969 York race riot
Watts
Los Angeles
Los Angeles Police Department
African-American
drunk driving
California Army National Guard
Rodney King riots

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