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Sep 28, 2017 · The Watts Rebellion, also known as the Watts Riots, was a large series of riots that broke out August 11, 1965, in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles. The Watts Rebellion ...
Sep 27, 2017 · The 1967 Detroit Riots were among the most violent and destructive riots in U.S. history. By the time the bloodshed, burning and looting ended after five days, 43 people were dead, 342 injured ...
Bettmann/Corbis/AP Images. Fifty years ago, on August 11, 1965, a heated encounter between a white California Highway Patrol officer and an African American motorist whom he had pulled over for suspicion of driving while intoxicated sparked an angry response from onlookers. It ignited six days of rage—including violent confrontations between ...
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street Riot, and the Detroit Uprising, was the bloodiest of the urban riots in the United States during the "Long, hot summer of 1967". [3] Composed mainly of confrontations between black residents and the Detroit Police Department, it began in the early morning hours of Sunday July 23, 1967, in ...
American civil rights movement. (Show more) Watts Riots of 1965, series of violent confrontations between Los Angeles police and residents of Watts and other predominantly African American neighbourhoods of South-Central Los Angeles that began August 11, 1965, and lasted for six days. The immediate cause of the disturbances was the arrest of an ...
May 30, 2020 · Race riots in Detroit, Michigan, July 23-27, 1967, kill 43 and leave more than 2,000 injured. ... 1992: Los Angeles. From April 30 to May 1, 1992, riots erupt in Los Angeles, with a toll of at ...
Los Angeles Riots 1992. Violent riots opposing racism in response to a police beating of an African American; 53 people were killed and nearly a billion dollars of property was destroyed. Governor Pete Wilson. Authorized the National Guard to come to LA to control the riots. 1965 Watts Riots.
