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 ...

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.

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 … ...

LA Race Relations 1965 and 1992 Karen Grigsby Bates talks with Karen Bass, Executive Director of the Community Coalition, and Raphael Sonenshein, a professor of political science at California ...

The match was lit on Aug. 12, the day after Watts erupted in flames. A fire crew dispatched from the now-shuttered Wilcox-Pulaski fire station raced away without its tillerman, whose job it was to ...

An image from the Watts riots in 1965. Barbara Arnwine, who lived through those riots, says watching the events in Ferguson, Mo., feels like “a time warp.” (CSU Archives/Everett Collection) ...

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… ...

One event in August 1965 fueled a six-long riot in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. The Watts Rebellion, as it is also known, was fueled by a traffic stop involving two Black brothers and a ...

Racial tension erupted into violence and a riot that lasted five days and left 34 people dead, more than 1,000 injured, almost 4,000 arrested and caused $40 million in damage.