1965 LA Riot Research Paper

1965 LA Riots Begin

As racial tension was already brewing in the predominately black Watts neighborhood in LA, it reached a breaking point when two white policemen scuffle with a black motorist Marquette Frye, who was suspected of drunken driving. Many people had watched the arrest and were angered by what they believed was another act of random racially motivated abuse by police. (N/A,1)
That day, August 11 1965, the Watts riot began. (Baldy, 1)
The rioters eventually ranged over a 50-square-mile area of South Central Los Angeles, looting stores, torching buildings, and beating whites as snipers fired at police and firefighters. (NA/1)
The entire incident was put in Los Angeles times and the news was spread across South Central LA like wildfire.

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