This event was partially triggered by the results of a proposition repealing the Rumford Fair Housing Act , and was not well analyzed by the McCone Report, allowing theories of communist involvement to arise.
This event was partially triggered by the results of a proposition repealing the Rumford Fair Housing Act , and was not well analyzed by the McCone Report, allowing theories of communist involvement to arise. It was sparked when Lee Minikus pulled over Marquette Frye on suspicion of drunk driving. Tension between the police who arrived to impound the vehicle and the crowd that gathered turned to violence. A 45 square mile curfew zone was established and 14,000 National Guard troops were sent in before the end of this event, which saw looting and burning of cars. FTP, name this incident occurring in August 1965 in a namesake neighborhood near Los Angeles.          |
This event was partially triggered by the results of a proposition repealing the Rumford Fair Housing Act , and was not well analyzed by the McCone Report, allowing theories of communist involvement to arise.
{Watts Riot}s