Branch. Watts Rebellion( Los Angeles, 1965).2006.

Martin Luther King, Jr and the Global Freedom

Struggle.
It's amazing that King came into this whole incident. He came to calm down both sides of the
riot. King had told the reporter that the riots were the beginning of a stirring of those people in
our society who have been by passed by the progress of the past decade. King then
recommended that president Johnson roll out a federal anti-poverty program in Los Angeles
after supporting those that live in the ghetto.
Love, David. LA Riots 20 Years Later. The Grio.
A black man on his motorcycle was brutally beaten by a couple of white cops in
South Central LA. Many people believed this broke out because of the incident with Renigald Denny.
He was a white truck driver that was severely beaten by a group of black men the day the riots began in
1992. Because of that, America was provided with the idea that the blacks were left poor and were
living in horrible neighborhoods whereas the whites were not. The LA Riots gave American a preview
of the racial tensions that would begin in today's diverse society. Another incident was the OJ Simpson
trial. The trial further exposed America's racial division between each other.
Landsberg, Mitchell. Watts Riots, 40 Years Later . Academic Search Premier Vol. 20 Issue .
Based on the article, this division that was around 40 years ago, is still here today. To many
people, the riot that began on August 11, 1965 stayed a riot, but to others, it was an uprising. To
this day, people still face these events firsthand.
Lughod, Abu. , Space, and Riots in Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles. Oxford University Janet L
2012.
The uprising of 1992 did nothing to help the neighborhoods that were burned. The cities did
nothing help restore them. On the other hand, the white neighborhood were in tip top shape.
The black neighborhoods were the last thing the people worried about. This was yet again
another racial tension that was occurring,
Woo, Eliane. Rena Price Dies at 97,Her and Son's Arrests Sparked Watts Riots. Volume and Issue: Vol.

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Price, the mother of Frye, overheard that her son was pulled over for drunk driving. She was
told that her son had failed a series of drunk tests but managed to have a sense of humor the
whole time the tests were being done. The officers claimed that he stopped being cooperative
once his mother Price had arrived. The officers then hit Frye on the head with a baton and his
mother quickly reacted by jumping on the officer and ripping his shirt.