Library Watts Rebellion Resource Handout

SELECTED RESOURCES

SUBJECTS: WATTS Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965, BLACK power -- United States – History, POLICE brutality

DATABASES

EBSCO America: History and Life with Full Text, Academic Search Premier, eBook Academic Collection 

ARTICLES:

50 Years Later, Watts Stands In Contrast to Today’s Conflicts. (cover story).

By: MEDINA, JENNIFER. New York Times. 8/11/2015, Vol. 164 Issue 56955, pA1-A16. 2p.

It’s the Racism, Stupid.

By: Kreitner, Richard. Nation. 9/15/2014, Vol. 299 Issue 11, p8-8. 1/5p.

The Many Meanings of Watts: Black Power, Wattstax, and the Carceral State.

By: Murch, Donna. OAH Magazine of History. Jan2012, Vol. 26 Issue 1, p37-40. 4p.

Looking Back: 40 Years After the 1965 Watts Riots.

By: Joiner, Lottie L. Crisis (15591573). Jul/Aug2005, Vol. 112 Issue 4, p9-9. 3/4p.

America's Urban Crisis a Decade After the Los Angeles Riots.

By: Dreier, Peter. National Civic Review. Spring2003, Vol. 92 Issue 1, p35. 21p. Historical Period: 1965 to 2003; 1992.

LASC LIBRARY CATALOG: 

Subject term:

Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965.

Subject term:

Riots--California--Los Angeles.

Subject term:

BLACK power -- United States – History, POLICE brutality

BOOKS:

At Canaan's edge : America in the King years, 1965-68 1st Simon & Schuster pbk ed. Author Branch, Taylor.

Watts and Hayneville – 22

Call number E185.615 .B67 2007

Fire this time : the Watts Uprising and the 1960s Author Horne, Gerald.

Call number F869.L89 N4 1995

Edition

WEBSITES:

http://www.blackpast.org/aaw/watts-rebellion-august-1965

http://crdl.usg.edu/events/watts_riots/?Welcome

http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20150807/40-rare-photos-youve-probably-never-seen-of-the-watts-riots

http://www.latimes.com/local/wattsriots/

https://www.pbs.org/hueypnewton/times/times_watts.html