“Watts Riot” is a smoldering work of art, made from materials scavenged from the momentous 1965 uprising in South Los Angeles. Sculptor Noah Purifoy (1917-2004) cobbled together charred ...

Don’t call it a riot.At Cal State Dominguez Hills, in the heart of heavily minority Carson, the uprising in August 1965 is remembered as the Watts rebellion.The university’s yearlong … ...

Events Mark 50 Years Since Watts Riots Angelenos will gather at events Tuesday and throughout the week to remember six days of fires, clashes with police and violence ...

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.

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 ...

The rare photos, taken by the Los Angeles Fire Department of the 1965 Watts riots, were unearthed last year when an intern stumbled upon three unmarked boxes full of negatives.