Police officers stand guard on Aug. 13, 1965, as debris is cleared from Avalon Boulevard and Imperial Highway. (Ray Graham/Los Angeles Times) On Aug. 11, 1965, 60 years ago, I stood transfixed with ...

The Watts Riots began on Aug. 11, 1965 and ended on Aug. 16, 1965 — and that day Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown declared the riots were over. Here is a sampling of moments about the Watts Riots, or what ...

Rena Price, a South Los Angeles woman whose arrest with her son, Marquette Frye, ignited the Watts Riots, has died. She was 97, according the Los Angeles Times. On August 11, 1965, Price went to check ...

I lived in Los Angeles in 1965. I worked on the 8th floor of the tallest building in town at the time, the IBM building on Wilshire Boulevard. The building was right next to the famous Ambassador ...

A year after southern California's catastrophic Watts Riots in August 1965, LIFE magazine revisited the scene of the devastation through remarkable color pictures by photographer Bill Ray.