It was Aug. 11, 1965, that Los Angeles police officer Lee Minikus tried to arrest Marquette Frye for driving drunk in the city’s Watts neighborhood—an event that led to one of the most ...

Anger and distrust between Watts’ residents, the police and city officials had been simmering for years. Between 1940 and 1965, Los Angeles County’s black population had grown from 75,000 to ...

Riot equipped policemen apprehend a man during race riots in the predominantly black area of Watts, Los Angeles, 11th-15th August 1965. (Photo by Harry Benson/Express/Getty Images) ...

On August 11, 1965, in the predominantly black Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, racial tension reaches a breaking point after two white policemen scuffle with a black motorist suspected of drunk … ...

Forty-four years ago today, the Los Angeles neighborhood of Watts erupts into the worst race riot in recent U.S. history, leaving 34 people dead.

Armed police patrolling the streets of Los Angeles during the Watts race riots, 11th-15th August 1965. A St Louis County officer points a gun at black youths during the second day of Ferguson ...

On a red-hot August night in 1965, the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles exploded with racial frustration. But 40 years after a traffic stop sparked the Watts riots, which claimed 34 lives, little ...

Watts riots: The fuse is still ... that engulfed the block we lived on and the surrounding blocks during the harrowing five days and nights of the Watts riot in August 1965 might improve things ...

Editor’s note: This story originally ran on Aug. 11, 2005. Jim McKay stopped to think as he raced down the aisle of a steamy, pitch-black appliance store, others around him grabbing merchandi… ...

Watts - Riot or Revolt? This December 1965 CBS News documentary looks back several months to the Watts Riots, tracing the events of August 11-17… August 22, 2014 ...

On the early evening of Aug. 11, 1965, what should have been a routine DUI arrest by a California Highway Patrol motorcycle cop turned into one of the nation’s worst urban riots with 34 people ...

LOS ANGELES – The woman who intervened when an officer pulled over one of her sons, leading to a racially-charged scuffle that set off the 1965 Watts riot, has died. The Los Angeles Times ...