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Watts riots
- A group of violent disturbances in Watts, a largely black section of Los Angeles , in 1965. Over thirty people died in the Watts riots, which were the first of several serious clashes between black people and police in the late 1960s.
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Notes
Los Angeles was the scene of another riot in 1992, triggered by the acquittal of white police officers accused of beating an African-American man named Rodney King.
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Powe went to Altadena after the Watts riots in 1965.
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The Watts riots in 1965 damaged or destroyed more than 600 buildings, causing insurers to flee and highlighting the need for a new type of carrier to step in.
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When the Watts riots erupted in 1965, then-Gov.
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Washington was 90% Black and 10% Latino and enrollment had plummeted in the wake of the Watts riots and the school system’s voluntary integration, which sent South L.A. students to campuses in the San Fernando Valley.
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He reminds everyone that Verbum Dei made it through the Watts riots of 1965 because students protected the campus from burning.
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