Watts Riot of 1965
First major racially-charged rebellion of the 1960s, an event that foreshadowed the widespread urban violence of the latter half of the decade.
Watts Riot of 1965
First major racially-charged rebellion of the 1960s, an event that foreshadowed the widespread urban violence of the latter half of the decade.
- Eric Bennett
A version of this article originally appeared in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience.
