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 ...

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) ...

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) ...

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

A year after southern California's catastrophic Watts Riots in August 1965, LIFE magazine revisited the scene of the devastation through remarkable color pictures by photographer Bill Ray.

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… ...

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.

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 ...