History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1992 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Watts
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The idea
In nineteen sixty-five a traffic stop in Watts, a Black neighbourhood of Los Angeles, set off riots in which thirty-four people died, most of them African Americans killed by police and the National Guard.
In practice
Thousands of businesses destroyed, the anchor records.
Where people slip
The anchor counts three hundred twenty-nine riots in two hundred fifty-seven cities between nineteen sixty-four and nineteen sixty-eight.
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