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Title: Police stand on alert, Watts
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1966
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Police stand on alert as 500 Negroes mass at San Pedro Street and Manchester Avenue during new disorders in the Watts area. Some members of the crowd hurled bottles and bricks at passing cars, including police cars. Lighted flares were tossed on rooftops and piles of rubble set afire in a two-block area. No major fire resulted. Photo dated: May 18, 1966.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00036549
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 7305.
CARL0000039620
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/11760
Subject: African Americans--California--Watts (Los Angeles)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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