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Los Angeles Riots, April 29, 1992

Los Angeles Fire Department Historical Archive. April 29, 1992 Los Angeles Riots...... Read more

Hyungwon's L.A. Riot photos

I took this photo on the first night of the April 29, 1992 Los Angeles Riots. My colleague at the time Larry Davis drove while I took this photo. ........ Read more

Watts in Perspective

When California Highway Patrol Officer Lee Minikus pulled over Los Angeles transplant Marquette Frye on Wednesday, August 11, 1965, it began as an ordinary traffic stop. Another motorist had pointed out Frye’s erratic driving, and Minikus confirmed that the young African-American man had been drinking. A crowd had gathered to watch the proceedings, additional officers had been called in, and Frye’s mood had progressively soured as he realized that his attempts to talk himself out of arrest were becoming increasingly futile...... Read more

Violence in the City: An End or a Beginning?

The rioting in Los Angeles in the late, hot summer of 1965 took six days to run its full grievous course. In hindsight, the tinder-igniting incident is seen to have been the arrest of a drunken Negro youth about whose dangerous driving another Negro had complained to the Caucasian motorcycle officer who made the arrest...... Read more