On the evening of August 11, 1965, an African American motorist was stopped in the Watts neighborhood for suspected drunk driving by a White police officer. Violence quickly followed, lasting for six days and resulting in 34 deaths, hundreds of injuries and $40 million in property damage. The Watts Riot changed Los Angeles and the United States.
Troubled Pasts : News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest by 
Race and Housing in Postwar Los Angeles by In this book, see Chapter 4 for the pre-riot conditions in the Watts-Willowbrook neighborhoods and Chapter 6 for the context of the riots.
In this book, see Chapter 3 for information about the McCone Commission.
The Opinions of Mankind : Racial Issues, Press, and Propaganda in the Cold War by In this book, Chapter 12 contains information about the role of journalism during and after the Watts riot.
Riots in Literature by Chapter 7 of this book is a discussion of Little Scarlet, by Walter Mosely, set in the aftermath of the Watts Riot.
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The Los Angeles Riots by 
Understanding the Riots : Los Angeles Before the Rodney King Case by Watts: The Fire Next Time. A Saturday Evening Post artcle by Stewart Alsop, November, 1965.
Watts, the 1965 Los Angeles Riots, and the Communicative Construction of the Fear Epicenter of Los Angeles An example of an academic paper by Sorin Adam Matei and Sandra Ball-Rokeach on the psychological effects of the Watts riot on Los Angeles residents.
America's Urban Crisis a Decade after the Watts Riots Peter Dreier, National Civic Review, 2003
The McCone Commission Report : Violence in the City : An End or a Beginning? From the archives of the University of Southern California. Contains a chapter, 144 Hours in August, 1965., that is a timeline of the riot, beginning with the Arrest of Marquette Fry on August 11,
Los Angeles Riots Collection from the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. Contains page image from Federal Register and articles from contemporary newspapers and magazines.
News coverage from major U.S. Newspapers from the Proquest National Newspapers Core. Search all papers or limit your search to a single title, like the Los Angeles Times.