The Watts Riots began on Aug. 11, 1965 and ended on Aug. 16, 1965 — and that day Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown declared the ...

What started as a routine traffic stop quickly escalated into violence and six days of civil unrest known as the Watts Riots ...

Nearby, uniformed Los Angeles Police Department officers mingled with residents, answered questions and chatted with young ...

Leaders and researchers look back at Watts since the 1965 riots and answer the question: Is it better now than back then?

Charles Parks, a retired commander for the Long Beach Police Department, has plenty of stories to tell about his 33-year ...

In some ways, what I see there now is worse than before 1965. Back then, nearly all residents had shelter. Today, as in other ...

Several buildings on fire at the same time, during the rioting in the Watts area. Photo courtesy: Los Angeles Public Library Fifty years ago this week, a highway patrolman clashed with a black ...

This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Watts Riots. To look back at the historic civil unrest, CBS2's Pat Harvey talked to a leader, who not only survived the chaos, but decided to stay and ...

Bad things began to happen in Watts on Aug. 11. That’s when black motorist Marquette Frye, 21, was arrested for drunken driving in a routine traffic stop that quickly turned into a riot.

Today, Watts’ elders wonder if things have changed too much. Factories goaded by the riots into hiring blacks eventually shut down or moved out, making it hard for high school grads to find a ...

The Watts Riots offer lessons for today’s Civil Rights street protests against the police murder of black people—and it’s not just that sometimes you have to take it to the streets.

In some ways, what I see there now is worse than before 1965. Back then, nearly all residents had shelter. Today, as in other ...