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Title: Watts Riots Commemoration
Date Created and/or Issued: 1966-08-17T07:00:00Z
Publication Information: Chapman University Digital Commons
Contributing Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
Collection: UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980
Rights Information: copyrighted
UPI retains the copyright on all photographs. Permission to use photographs must be obtained from United Press International.
Description: Los Angeles: Police and residents clashed in the streets of the Watts section of Los Angeles last August. In this August 13th, 1965, file photo, police grapple with riot suspects outside the 77th Street Police Station during transfer of the suspects to central headquarters. To mark the first anniversary of the riots in a happier fashion, Watts residents participated in a festival of outdoor music and dancing.
Type: Image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: http://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/upi_african_american/185
Subject: African Americans
History
United States
Prejudice
Desegregation
Civil rights movement
Black Panthers
African American Studies
United States History
Source: UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980

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