Los Angeles Riots

Microform Collection

Location: Microfilm  F 869 L8 C15 1965

Scope: " The Watts Riots, the most devastating racial disturbance in the United States in decades, began with a minor incident on the evening of August 11, 1965, in the Watts Section of Los Angeles. An eight-man commission, appointed by Governor Brown and headed by John A. McCone, was established to examine the racial problems and to recommend solutions. This collection includes: transcripts; depositions; testimony; statements from administrators, law enforcement officers, representatives of business and labour, local residents, spokesmen for minorities, and social workers; consultants' reports; and, selected documents dealing with the Watts Riots." (University of Toronto Libraries)

How to search the collection:

The Pickler Memorial Library collection is missing V.1-5.  The table of contents and bibliographies are in V. 1.

v. 1. Table of contents. Selected document list. Violence in the city: an end or a beginning? -- v. 2. Chronology --v. 3-14. Transcripts and depositions of testimony -- v. 15-16. Selected interviews and other documents -- v. 17-18. Reports of consultants.

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Time Period:  20th Century

Subject keywords: African American Studies

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