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In August 1965 the predominantly black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and violence following an incident of police brutality. This is the first comprehensive treatment of that uprising. Property losses reached hundreds of millions of dollars and the official death toll was thirty-four, but the political results were even more profound.
The civil rights movement was placed on the defensive as the image of meek and angelic protestors in the South was replaced by the image of "rioting" blacks in the West. A "white backlash" ensued that led directly to Ronald Reagan's election as governor of California in 1966.
- In Fire This Time Horne delineates the central roles played by Ronald Reagan, Tom Bradley, Martin Luther King, Jr., Edmund G. Brown, and organizations such as the NAACP, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, and gangs. He documents the role of the Cold War in the dismantling of legalized segregation, and he looks at the impact of race, region, class, gender, and age on postwar Los Angeles. All this he considers in light of world developments, particularly in Vietnam, the Soviet Union, China, and Africa.
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Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965, Race relations, African Americans, Civil rights, Afro-Americans, Nineteen sixties, Noirs américains, Relations interethniques, Droits, California, United states, African americans, civil rights, African americans, california, los angeles, African Americans -- Civil rights -- California -- Los Angeles, Los Angeles (Calif.) -- Race relations, Los angeles (calif.), race relationsPlaces
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Fire This Ttime: The Watts Uprising and the 1960's
September 1, 1997, Da Capo
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in English
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Fire this time: the Watts uprising and the 1960s
1997, Da Capo Press
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Fire this time: the Watts Uprising and the 1960s
1995, University Press of Virginia
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Fire this time: the Watts uprising and the 1960s
1995, Da Capo Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-424) and index.
Map of Watts and California on endpapers.
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