Watts Riots of 1965: References & Edit History

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Jill A. Edy, Troubled Pasts: News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest (2006).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Invalidated site: Bill of Rights Institute - Rodney King and the Los Angeles Race Riots. Oct 11, 2026
Anniversary information added. Aug 12, 2026
Added cross-references, Top Questions; modernized spellings. Jul 14, 2025
Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - Letter from America by Alistair Cooke - The LA Watts riots, 1965. Apr 05, 2025
Add new Web site: CBS News - "Granddaddy of civil disturbance": The Watts riots, 50 years later. Jan 25, 2025
Add new Web site: UCL Discovery - ?The Watts Riots (1965).? Nov 27, 2024
Add new Web site: NPR - Out Of Long-Gone Rubble Of The Watts Riots, Scars And Signs Of Healing. Oct 03, 2024
Add new Web site: Academia - Watts, the 1965 Los Angeles Riots, and the Communicative Construction of the Fear Epicenter of Los Angeles A previous version of this paper was presented at the �. Aug 07, 2024
Add new Web site: Digital History - Watts: the Ghetto erupts. Jun 12, 2024
Add new Web site: Los Angeles Times - Watts Riots: Traffic stop was the spark that ignited days of destruction in L.A. Jan 19, 2024
Add new Web site: Bill of Rights Institute - Rodney King and the Los Angeles Race Riots. Apr 17, 2023
Add new Web site: Stanford University - The Martin Luther King, Jr., Research and Education Institute - Watts Rebellion (Los Angeles). Jan 27, 2023
Add new Web site: United States History for Kids - Watts Riots 1965. Mar 04, 2022
Media added. Aug 24, 2015
Add new Web site: BlackPast - Watts Rebellion. Sep 10, 2014
New article added. Jan 02, 2014
New bibliography added. Jan 02, 2014
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