Tuesday marks the 55th anniversary of one of the most vivid weeks of racial tension in U.S. history.

A short article in the Aug. 11, 2006, Los Angeles Times reported on the origins of the 1965 riots in Los Angeles' Watts neighborhood: "Aug. 11, 1965: At 7:19 p.m. in Watts, a California Highway ...

Gerald Horne talked about the 50th anniversary of the Watts riots in Los Angeles, which erupted August 11, 1965, following the arrest of a black man for drunk driving. The six days of looting and ...

Riot equipped policemen apprehend a man during race riots in the predominantly black area of Watts, Los Angeles, 11th-15th August 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Getty Images) ...

Watts, Los Angeles, August 11, 1965 Around 7 p.m., stepbrothers Marquette and Ronald Frye were pulled over by a white California Highway Patrol officer at the corner of Avalon Boulevard and 116th ...

Damaged storefronts in the 1965 Watts riots included this ... The photos were taken as part of the LAFD's in-house publication “The Grapevine” from 1940 to 1965, which included images of ...

Riot equipped policemen apprehend a man during race riots in the predominantly black area of Watts, Los Angeles, 11th-15th August 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Getty Images) ...

The Watts riots broke out Aug. 11, 1965, and raged for most of a week. When the smoke cleared, 34 people were dead, more than a 1,000 were injured and some 600 buildings were damaged.

August 12, 1965, was Day Two of the Watts Riots. KCRW's Saul Gonzalez has the background on how they began. ... Riots, Rebellion and Rethinking Watts. Hosted by Warren Olney Aug. 12, 2015. Listen 21 ...

Op Images: Fifty years after the Watts riots, we do learn, ... ever so slightly, since 1965. ... He remembers the Watts riots.

Gerald Horne talked about the 50th anniversary of the Watts riots in Los Angeles, which erupted August 11, 1965, following the arrest of a black man for drunk driving. The six days of looting and… ...