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'65 Love Affair
"'65 Love Affair" is a song performed by Paul Davis on his album Cool Night.
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A Song Flung Up to Heaven
A Song Flung Up to Heaven is the sixth book in author Maya Angelou's series of autobiographies.
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Against the Wall (1994 film)
Against the Wall is a 1994 American action historical drama television film directed by John Frankenheimer, written by Ron Hutchinson, and starring Samuel L. Jackson and Kyle MacLachlan.
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Al Bell
Al Bell (born Alvertis Isbell, March 15, 1940) is an American record producer, songwriter, and record executive.
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Allen R. Morris
Allen Robert Morris is an American television producer/director/writer.
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America in the King Years
America in the King Years is a three-volume history of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement by Taylor Branch, which he wrote between 1982 and 2006.
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American Dreams
American Dreams is an American television drama program broadcast on the NBC television network from 2002 to 2005.
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Ann Shaw (social worker)
Ann Shaw (November 21, 1921 – May 5, 2015) was an American social worker and civic leader based in Los Angeles for five decades.
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August 11
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August 1965
The following events occurred in August 1965.
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Augustus F. Hawkins
Augustus Freeman Hawkins (August 31, 1907 – November 10, 2007) was a prominent American Democratic Party politician and a figure in the history of Civil Rights and organized labor.
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Baltimore Police Department
The Baltimore Police Department (BPD) provides police services to the city of Baltimore, Maryland.
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Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
The Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation (or BSRC, referred to locally in short as Restoration) is a community development corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, and the first ever to be established in the United States.
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Birmingham campaign
The Birmingham campaign, or Birmingham movement, was a movement organized in early 1963 by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) to bring attention to the integration efforts of African Americans in Birmingham, Alabama.
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Black Arts Movement
The Black Arts Movement, Black Aesthetics Movement or BAM is the artistic outgrowth of the Black Power movement that was prominent in the 1960s and early 1970s.
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Black doll
A black doll is a doll of a black person.
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Black Panther Party
The Black Panther Party or the BPP (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966.
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Black Power movement
The Black Power movement was a political movement that intended to achieve Black Power.
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Blood on the Moon (novel)
Blood on the Moon (1984) is a crime novel by James Ellroy.
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Burn Baby Burn
Burn Baby Burn can refer to.
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Burn Baby Burn (poem)
Burn Baby Burn is a poem by American poet Marvin X, X wrote the poem shortly after the Watts Rebellion in 1965, to convey the oppression Black people faced in white America.
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C. Bernard Jackson
C.
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California gubernatorial election, 1966
The California gubernatorial election, 1966 was held on November 8, 1966.
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California Proposition 14 (1964)
California Proposition 14 was a November 1964 ballot proposition that amended the California state constitution, nullifying the Rumford Fair Housing Act.
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Charles A. Ott Jr.
Charles Adam Ott Jr. (September 26, 1920 – December 9, 2006) was a United States Army major general who served as Commander of the 40th Armored Division and 40th Infantry Division, and Director of the Army National Guard.
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Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science is a private, non-profit, historically black university and a minority-serving institution located in Willowbrook, unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States.
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Chester R. Crain
Chester R. Crain (March 15, 1914 – December 13, 1984) served as mayor of Compton, California during a period of enormous transition.
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Chicago Freedom Movement
The Chicago Freedom Movement, also known as the Chicago open housing movement, was led by Martin Luther King Jr., James Bevel and Al Raby.
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Civil rights campaign in Seattle
Movements for civil rights in Seattle started well before the celebrated struggles in the South in the 1950s and 1960s, and they relied not just on African American activists but also on Filipino Americans, Japanese Americans, Chinese Americans, Jews, Latinos, and Native Americans.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Cliven Bundy
Cliven D. Bundy (born April 29, 1946) is an American cattle rancher from Bunkerville, Nevada who was federally incarcerated awaiting a trial with bail denied for his alleged role in the 2014 Bundy standoff.
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Co Rentmeester
Jacobus "Co" Willem Rentmeester (born 28 February 1936) is a Dutch rower.
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Commentary (magazine)
Commentary is a monthly American magazine on religion, Judaism, and politics, as well as social and cultural issues.
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Compton Creek
Compton Creek is a major tributary of the Los Angeles River in and surrounding Compton in Los Angeles County, California.
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Compton Police Department (California)
The Compton Police Department was the municipal law enforcement agency for the city of Compton, California until it was disbanded by the City Council on September 16, 2000.
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Compton, California
Compton is a city in southern Los Angeles County, California, United States, situated south of downtown Los Angeles.
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Crenshaw, Los Angeles
Crenshaw, normally referred to as the Crenshaw District, is a neighborhood in South Los Angeles.
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Criminal justice reform in the United States
Criminal justice reform in the United States refers to reform aimed at fixing perceived errors in the criminal justice system.
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Crips and Bloods: Made in America
Crips and Bloods: Made in America is a documentary by Stacy Peralta that examines the rise of the Crips and Bloods, prominent gangs in America.
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Crown Firecoach
Crown Firecoach is a nameplate used for various types of firefighting apparatus manufactured and marketed by Crown Coach Corporation in Los Angeles, California from 1951 to 1985.
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Dale Brockman Davis
Dale Brockman Davis (born 1945) is a Los Angeles-based African-American artist, gallerist and educator best known for his assemblage sculpture and ceramic work that addresses themes of African American history and music, especially jazz.
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Dark Skies
Dark Skies is an American UFO conspiracy theory–based sci-fi television series (1996–97).
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Daryl Gates
Daryl Gates (born Darrel Francis Gates; August 30, 1926 – April 16, 2010) was the Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) from 1978 to 1992.
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David W. Williams
David W. Williams (March 20, 1910 – May 6, 2000) was an American attorney and judge, the first African-American federal judge west of the Mississippi.
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Derek Lawther
Derek Lawther is a soccer coach and businessman.
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Dodgers–Giants rivalry
The Dodgers–Giants rivalry is a rivalry between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants baseball teams of Major League Baseball (MLB).
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Donald Pomerleau
Donald D. Pomerleau (August 31, 1915 – January 19, 1992) was the City Police Commissioner of Baltimore, Maryland from 1966 to 1981.
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Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine
Dr.
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Dusty and Sweets McGee
Dusty and Sweets McGee is a 1971 American drama film written and directed by Floyd Mutrux.
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Earl Broady
Earl Broady (b. 1904 - 1992) was a judge, attorney, police officer and pianist in Los Angeles.
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Emil Freed
Emil Freed (June 25, 1901 - December 4, 1982) was a political activist and founder of the Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research, an archive in Los Angeles.
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Eve of Destruction (song)
"Eve of Destruction" is a protest song written by P. F. Sloan in mid-1964.
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Ezekiel "Easy" Rawlins
Ezekiel "Easy" Porterhouse Rawlins is a fictional character created by mystery author Walter Mosley.
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Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy is a 1989 book by Philip L. Fradkin which was republished in a second edition in 2004.
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Felicia (film)
Felicia is a 1965 short documentary film directed by UCLA students Bob Dickson, Alan Gorg and Trevor Greenwood.
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Francis Eric Bloy
Francis Eric Irving Bloy (December 17, 1904 – May 23, 1993) served as the third Episcopal Bishop of Los Angeles from April 21, 1948 until December 31, 1973.
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Frank Davey
Frankland Wilmot Davey, FRSC (born April 19, 1940) is a Canadian poet and scholar.
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Frank Zappa
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American musician, composer, activist and filmmaker.
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Freak Out!
Freak Out! is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Mothers of Invention, released June 27, 1966, on Verve Records.
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Gary Anderson (designer)
Gary Dean Anderson (born 1947) is an influential graphic designer and architect.
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Ghetto Informant Program
The Ghetto Informant Program (GIP) was an intelligence-gathering operation run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 1967–1973.
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Hal Fishman
Harold "Hal" Fishman (August 25, 1931 – August 7, 2007) was a local news anchor in the Los Angeles area, serving on-air with Los Angeles-area television stations continuously between 1960 until his death in 2007.
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Harambee (African-American newspaper)
Harambee was an African-American newspaper published in the 1960s by the Los Angeles Black Congress, an umbrella organization for diverse groups which included the Congress of Racial Equality,(CORE) the Freedom Draft Movement, the Afro-American Association, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Ron Karenga's US, John Floyd's Black Panther Political Party, and others.
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Harry Dolan
Harry Dolan (November 5, 1927 – September 7, 1981) used to be a writer for and the director of the Watts Writers Workshop created by Budd Schulberg.
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Heat Wave (1990 film)
Heat Wave is a 1990 American action-thriller television film about 1965 Los Angeles Watts Riots, directed by Kevin Hooks and starring Blair Underwood, Cicely Tyson, James Earl Jones, Margaret Avery, and David Strathairn.
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Herbert Simmons
Herbert Simmons (born 1930 or 1931 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American writer.
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Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office (Florida)
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office (HCSO) is the primary law enforcement agency for Hillsborough County, Florida and is responsible for law enforcement services for the of unincorporated areas of the county as well as operation of the two jail facilities, a work release center, and provides courthouse security for the 13th Judicial Circuit.
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History of African Americans in Los Angeles
This article discusses the African-American community in Los Angeles.
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History of California 1900 to present
This article continues the history of California in the years 1900 and later;for events through 1899, see History of California before 1900. After 1900, California continued to grow rapidly and soon became an agricultural and industrial power.
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History of Korean Americans in Los Angeles
As of 2008, Greater Los Angeles has the largest Korean community in the United States with about 60,000 ethnic Koreans.
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History of Los Angeles
The written history of Los Angeles city and county began with a Colonial Mexican town that was founded by 11 Mexican families which were known as "Los Pobladores" that established a settlement in Southern California that changed little in the three decades after 1848, when California became part of the United States.
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History of San Bernardino, California
San Bernardino, California, was named in 1810.
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History of the Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department was formed in 1869, and has since become the third-largest law enforcement agency in the United States.
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Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr. (May 27, 1911January 13, 1978) was an American politician who served as the 38th Vice President of the United States from 1965 to 1969.
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Index of articles related to African Americans
An African American is a citizen or resident of the United States who has origins in any of the black populations of Africa.
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Inland Empire
The Inland Empire (IE) is a metropolitan area and region in Southern California.
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Inola Henry
Inola Henry (November 15, 1942 – July 26, 2009) was an educator, union leader, and American Democratic Party leader who was chair of the resolutions committee of the California Democratic Party, Democratic National Committee member, and a Superdelegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention, where she voted for Barack Obama.
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Jack Jones (journalist)
John E. Jones, Jr. (June 14, 1924 – May 12, 2011), better known as Jack Jones, was an American journalist.
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Jerry Farber
Jerry Farber (born 1935) is an American educator and writer.
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Joe Pyne
Joe Pyne (22 December 1924 – 23 March 1970) was an American radio and television talk show host, who pioneered the confrontational style in which the host advocates a viewpoint and argues with guests and audience members.
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Joe R. Hicks
Joe R. Hicks (July 1941 – August 28, 2016) was an African-American political commentator and community activist.
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John A. McCone
John Alexander McCone (January 4, 1902 – February 14, 1991) was an American businessman and politician who served as Director of Central Intelligence from 1961 to 1965, during the height of the Cold War.
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John Ferraro
John Ferraro (May 24, 1924 – April 17, 2001) was the longest-serving Los Angeles City Council member in the history of the city—thirty-five years, from 1966 until his death in 2001—and the president of the council for fourteen of them.
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John G. Schmitz
John George Schmitz (August 12, 1930 – January 10, 2001) was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives and California State Senate from Orange County, California.
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John Lindsay
John Vliet Lindsay (November 24, 1921 – December 19, 2000) was an American politician, lawyer, and broadcaster.
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John Nelson (police officer)
John G. Nelson, (14 May 1928 – 28 February 2003), was an American police officer with the Los Angeles Police Department who is considered to be the founding father of the SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) concept.
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John Roseboro
John Junior Roseboro (May 13, 1933 – August 16, 2002) was an American professional baseball player and coach.
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John S. Gibson Jr.
John S. Gibson Jr. (1902–1987) was a powerful San Pedro, California, politician who was on the Los Angeles City Council for thirty years between 1951 and 1981.
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John W. Campbell
John Wood Campbell Jr. (June 8, 1910 – July 11, 1971) was an American science fiction writer and editor.
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Jordan Downs
The Jordan Downs Housing Projects is a 700-unit public housing apartment complex in Watts, Los Angeles, California next to David Starr Jordan High School.
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Jupiter's Legacy
Jupiter's Legacy is an American superhero comic book series, first published in 2013, written by Mark Millar, drawn by Frank Quitely, colored and lettered by Peter Doherty and published by Image Comics.
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Ken Jones (news reporter)
Kenneth Leon "Ken" Jones (June 9, 1938 – May 13, 1993) was an American television journalist, actor, reporter and news anchor.
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Kerner Commission
The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, known as the Kerner Commission after its chair, Governor Otto Kerner, Jr. of Illinois, was an 11-member Presidential Commission established by President Lyndon B. Johnson in to investigate the causes of the 1967 race riots in the United States and to provide recommendations for the future.
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KFDX-TV
KFDX-TV, virtual channel 3 (UHF digital channel 28), is an NBC-affiliated television station licensed to Wichita Falls, Texas, United States and serving the Wichita Falls–Lawton television market.
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King assassination riots
The King assassination riots, also known as the Holy Week Uprising, was a wave of civil disturbance which swept the United States following the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968.
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KPLM
KPLM is one of four Class B FM radio stations serving the Palm Springs, California, area and one of only two 50 kW stations.
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L.A. Rebellion
The L.A. Rebellion film movement, sometimes referred to as the "Los Angeles School of Black Filmmakers", or the UCLA Rebellion, refers to the new generation of young African and African-American filmmakers who studied at the UCLA Film School in the late-1960s to the late-1980s and have created a quality Black Cinema that provides an alternative to classical Hollywood cinema.
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LA 92 (film)
LA 92 is a 2017 American documentary film about the 1992 Los Angeles riots, directed by Daniel Lindsay and T. J. Martin.
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Leo Ryan
Leo Joseph Ryan Jr. (May 5, 1925November 18, 1978) was an American teacher and politician.
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List of conflicts in North America
This page lists all recorded conflicts, terrorist actions and wars that have or are currently taking place in the continent of North America.
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List of covers of Time magazine (1960s)
This is a list of people appearing on the cover of ''Time'' magazine in the 1960s.
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List of ethnic riots
This is a list of ethnic riots, sectarian riots, and race riots, by country.
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List of incidents of civil unrest in the United States
Wikipedia has articles on most of the major episodes of civil unrest.
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List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles
This is a list of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments in South Los Angeles, California, United States.
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List of Marvel Comics characters: U
U-Go Girl (Edie Sawyer) is a mutant, a member of X-Statix.
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List of Peabody Award winners (1960–69)
Peabody Award winners and honorable mentions.
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List of riots
This is a chronological list of known riots.
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List of songs about Los Angeles
This is a list of songs about Los Angeles, California: either refer to, are set there, named after a location or feature of the city, named after a famous resident, or inspired by an event that occurred locally.
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List of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air characters
The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is an American sitcom based on the life of Will "The Fresh Prince" Smith.
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List of topics related to the African diaspora
This is a list of topics related to the African diaspora.
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List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll
This is a list of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll.
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Little Richard
Richard Wayne Penniman (born December 5, 1932), known as Little Richard, is an American musician, songwriter, singer, and actor.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles (Spanish for "The Angels";; officially: the City of Los Angeles; colloquially: by its initials L.A.) is the second-most populous city in the United States, after New York City.
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Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (abbreviated DHS and LADHS) operates the public hospitals and clinics in Los Angeles County, and is United States' second largest municipal health system, after NYC Health + Hospitals.
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Los Angeles Police Department
The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the police department of Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles riots
Los Angeles riots may refer to.
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Los Angeles Southwest College
Los Angeles Southwest College (LASC) is a community college located in the unincorporated area of West Athens, California in the Los Angeles County, near the city of Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles Times
The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper which has been published in Los Angeles, California since 1881.
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Luis J. Rodriguez
Luis Javier Rodriguez (born 1954) is an American poet, novelist, journalist, critic, and columnist.
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969, assuming the office after having served as the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963.
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Magnificent Montague
Nathaniel "Magnificent" Montague (born January 11, 1928), is an American R&B disc jockey notable not only for the soul music records he helped promote on KGFJ Los Angeles and WWRL New York City, but also his trademark catch-phrase, "Burn, baby! Burn!" that became the rallying cry of the 1965 Watts riots.
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Martin Luther King Jr. Outpatient Center
The Martin Luther King Jr.
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Marvin Gaye
Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.
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Mass racial violence in the United States
Mass racial violence in the United States, also called race riots, can include such disparate events as.
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Maulana Karenga
Maulana Ndabezitha Karenga, previously known as Ron Karenga, (born July 14, 1941) is an African-American professor of Africana studies, activist and author, best known as the creator of the pan-African and African-American holiday of Kwanzaa.
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou (born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist.
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Memphis soul
Memphis soul, also known as the Memphis sound, was the most prominent strain of Southern soul.
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Michael Lazarou
Michael Lazarou (born March 17, 1960 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film and television writer/producer.
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Michael Okwu
Michael Chiaka Douglass Okwu is a Nigerian American journalist, television personality, and media entrepreneur.
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Militarization of police
Militarization of police refers to the use of military equipment and tactics by law enforcement officers.
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Mondo Hollywood
Mondo Hollywood is a documentary "mondo movie" by Robert Carl Cohen, released in 1967.
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Mujahid Abdul-Karim
Imam Mujahid Abdul-Karim (born Benjamin Farmer, December 26, 1944) is an African-American convert to Islam, who is best known for his involvement and "spearheading" of the April 26, 1992 Watts Gang Truce between the four influential rival gangs— Watts Hacienda Village Bloods, Grape Street Watts Crips, Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, and PJ Watts Crips.
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Municipal disinvestment
Municipal disinvestment is a term in the United States which describes an urban planning process in which that a city or town or other municipal entity decides to abandon or neglect an unproductive zone.
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National Guard of the United States
The National Guard of the United States, part of the reserve components of the United States Armed Forces, is a reserve military force, composed of National Guard military members or units of each state and the territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, for a total of 54 separate organizations.
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National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles, California.
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Nelson Peery
Nelson Peery (June 22, 1923 – September 6, 2015) was an American political activist and author.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones
Nikole Hannah-Jones (born April 9, 1976) is an American investigative journalist known for her coverage of civil rights in the United States.
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Noah Purifoy
Noah S. Purifoy (August 17, 1917 – March 5, 2004) was an African-American visual artist and sculptor, co-founder of the Watts Towers Art Center, and creator of the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Desert Art Museum.
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Norman Borlaug
Norman Ernest Borlaug (March 25, 1914September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist and humanitarian who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution.
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Operation Garden Plot
The Department of Defense Civil Disturbance Plan, also known by its cryptonym GARDEN PLOT, was a general US Army and National Guard plan to respond to major domestic civil disturbances within the United States.
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Operation Hammer (1987)
A Los Angeles Police Department C.R.A.S.H. initiative that began in April 1987, Operation Hammer was a large scale attempt to crack down on gang violence in Los Angeles, California.
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Oretha Castle Haley
Oretha Castle Haley (July 22, 1939 – October 10, 1987) was an American civil rights activist in New Orleans.
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Otis O'Solomon
Otis O'Solomon is an American poet and original member of the Watts Prophets, a pioneering trio of poets that emerged from the Watts Writers Workshop in the wake of the Watts Riots, often cited as forerunners of contemporary hip hop music.
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Ozzie Smith
Osborne Earl Smith (born December 26, 1954) is an American former baseball shortstop who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the San Diego Padres and St. Louis Cardinals from 1978 to 1996.
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Pan-Africanism
Pan-Africanism is a worldwide intellectual movement that aims to encourage and strengthen bonds of solidarity between all people of African descent.
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Pat Brown
Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr. (April 21, 1905 – February 16, 1996) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 32nd Governor of California from 1959 to 1967.
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Peace Officer (film)
Peace Officer is a documentary film about police militarization in the United States.
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Pepperdine University
Pepperdine University is a private, not-for-profit, coeducational research university affiliated with the Churches of Christ.
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Philip L. Fradkin
Philip L. Fradkin (February 28, 1935 – July 8, 2012) was an American environmentalist historian, journalist, and author.
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Phyllis Kirk
Phyllis Kirk (born Phyllis Kirkegaard; September 18, 1927 October 19, 2006) was an American actress.
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Planet of the Apes
Planet of the Apes is an American science fiction media franchise consisting of films, books, television series, comics, and other media about a world in which humans and intelligent apes clash for control.
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Police
A police force is a constituted body of persons empowered by a state to enforce the law, to protect people and property, and to prevent crime and civil disorder.
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Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson
The presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson began on November 22, 1963, when Johnson became the 36th President of the United States upon the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and ended on January 20, 1969.
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Quantum Leap (season 3)
Season three of Quantum Leap ran on NBC from September 28, 1990 to May 22, 1991.
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Race in the United States criminal justice system
Race in the United States criminal justice system refers to the unique experiences and disparities in the United States in regard to the policing and prosecuting of various races.
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Radio Free Dixie
Radio Free Dixie was a radio program started by Robert F. Williams when he was forced in exile to Cuba from Monroe, North Carolina during the American Civil Rights Movement.
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Ramsey Clark
William Ramsey Clark (born December 18, 1927) is an American lawyer, activist and former federal government official.
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Raymond Monsour Scurfield
Raymond Monsour Scurfield (born 1943) is an American professor emeritus of social work at The University of Southern Mississippi,Gulf Coast.
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Red Army Faction
The Red Army Faction (RAF; German),See the section ''Faction'' versus ''Fraktion'' also known as the Baader-Meinhof Group or Baader-Meinhof Gang, was a West German far-left militant organization founded in 1970.
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Riot (1997 film)
Riot is a 1997 American television film starring Luke Perry and Mario Van Peebles.
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Robert B. Pitts
Robert Pitts was the first black Regional Administrator of the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).
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Robert E. Conot
Robert Ernst Conot (June 25, 1929 – November 16, 2011) was an American journalist and historian.
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Rose Institute of State and Local Government
The Rose Institute of State and Local Government is a research institute based out of Claremont McKenna College in Claremont, California.
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Russell L. Caldwell
Russell Leon Caldwell was an American historian, educator, and community activist.
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Sam Yorty
Samuel William Yorty (October 1, 1909 – June 5, 1998) was an American politician from Los Angeles, California.
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Samuel L. Williams
Samuel L. Williams (ca. 1933–1994) was president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners and the first African-American president of the State Bar of California (1981).
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Second Great Migration (African American)
In the context of the 20th-century history of the United States, the Second Great Migration was the migration of more than 5 million African Americans from the South to the North, Midwest and West.
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Shag Crawford
Henry Charles "Shag" Crawford (August 30, 1916 – July 11, 2007) was an American professional umpire in Major League Baseball who worked in the National League from 1956 to 1975.
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Shindana Toys
Shindana Toys, a division of Operation Bootstrap, Inc., was a South Central Los Angeles, California cooperative toy company formed in 1968, one of many Operation Bootstrap initiatives undertaken following the 1965 Watts Riots.
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Shoot the Boss
Shoot The Boss is the sole album by Monkey Mafia, released in the UK on Heavenly Records on 4 May 1998, and in the US on Arista Records on 13 October 1998.
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Sonnets for an Old Century
Sonnets for an Old Century is an anthology styled play published in 2000 and written by José Rivera (playwright).
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Soul On Ice (book)
Soul On Ice is a memoir and collection of essays by Eldridge Cleaver.
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Stan Chambers
Stanley Holroyd "Stan" Chambers (August 11, 1923 – February 13, 2015) was an American television reporter who worked for KTLA in Los Angeles from 1947 to 2010.
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Stanley Crouch
Stanley Lawrence Crouch (born December 14, 1945) is an American poet, music and cultural critic, syndicated columnist, novelist and biographer, perhaps best known for his jazz criticism and his 2000 novel Don't the Moon Look Lonesome?.
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Stax Records
Stax Records is an American record label, originally based in Memphis, Tennessee.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s.
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Studio Watts Workshop
The Studio Watts Workshop was an arts organization founded in 1964 and based in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, dedicated to providing working space for artists and offering a broad range of arts workshops for the local community.
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SWAT
In the United States, a SWAT (Special Weapons And Tactics) team is a law enforcement unit which uses specialized or military equipment and tactics.
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Sylvester (singer)
Sylvester James Jr. (September 6, 1947December 16, 1988), who used the stage name of Sylvester, was an American singer-songwriter.
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Ted Patrick
Theodore Roosevelt Patrick, Jr. (born 1930) is an American cult-deprogrammer and author.
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The Begatting of the President
The Begatting of the President is a satirical album narrated by Orson Welles, summarising the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson and the election of 1968, leading up to the election of Richard Nixon, delivered in the style of Biblical verse.
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The Century: America's Time
The Century: America's Time is a 15-part series of documentaries produced by the American Broadcasting Company about the 20th century and the rise of the United States as a superpower.
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The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by Thomas Pynchon, first published in 1966.
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The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California
The Last Days of the Late, Great State of California is a novel by Curt Gentry, published in 1968 by G.P. Putnam's Sons.
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The Least Among You
The Least Among You is a film based on the true story of Rev.
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The Mod Squad
The Mod Squad is an American crime drama series that ran on ABC from 1968 to 1973.
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The Mothers of Invention
The Mothers of Invention were an American rock band from California.
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The New Centurions (novel)
The New Centurions (1971), is a novel by American writer Joseph Wambaugh.
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The Olympics (band)
The Olympics are an American doo-wop group, formed in 1957 by lead singer Walter Ward (August 28, 1940 – December 11, 2006).
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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
"The Revolution Will Not Be Televised" is a poem and song by Gil Scott-Heron.
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The Shifting Grounds of Race
The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic Los Angeles is a nonfiction book by Scott Kurashige, published in 2008 by Princeton University Press.
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The Watts Prophets
The Watts Prophets are a group of musicians and poets from Watts, California, United States.
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The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band (WCPAEB) was an American psychedelic rock band formed in Los Angeles, California in 1965.
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There Goes My Baby (film)
There Goes My Baby (also released as The Last Days of Paradise) is a 1994 American coming-of-age comedy-drama film written and directed by Floyd Mutrux and starring Dermot Mulroney, Rick Schroder, Noah Wyle, Lucy Deakins, and Kelli Williams.
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Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist.
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Timeline of 1960s counterculture
The following is a chronological capsule history of 1960s counterculture.
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Timeline of African-American history
This is a timeline of the African-American history in what is now the United States, from 1565 to the present.
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Timeline of Los Angeles
The following is a historical timeline of the city of Los Angeles, California.
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Timeline of the Black Power movement
This is a timeline of the Black Power movement.
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Timeline of the civil rights movement
This is a timeline of the civil rights movement, a nonviolent freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement of constitutional rights for African Americans.
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Timeline of United States history
This is a timeline of United States history, comprising important legal and territorial changes as well as political, social, and economic events in the United States and its predecessor states.
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Timeline of United States history (1950–69)
This section of the Timeline of United States history concerns events from 1950 to 1969.
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Timeline of United States military operations
This timeline of United States government military operations is based on the Committee on International Relations (now known as the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs).
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Tommy Jacquette
Tommy Jacquette (also known as Tommy Halifu Jacquette) was a community activist best known as the executive director of the Watts Summer Festival.
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Trouble Every Day (song)
"Trouble Every Day" (labeled in early prints as "Trouble Comin' Every Day") is a song by The Mothers of Invention, released on their 1966 debut album Freak Out! Frank Zappa wrote the song in 1965 at 1819 Bellevue Avenue, Echo Park, Los Angeles residence of a methamphetamine chemist referred to by Zappa as "Wild Bill the Mannequin-Fucker"Zappa, p. 71 after watching news coverage of the Watts Riots.
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University of Southern California
The University of Southern California (USC or SC) is a private research university in Los Angeles, California.
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Urban riots
Riots often occur in reaction to a perceived grievance or out of dissent.
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US Organization
US Organization, or Organization Us, is a Black nationalist group in the United States founded in 1965.
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Virginia Jaramillo (artist)
Virginia Jaramillo is an American artist of Mexican heritage.
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Warren Christopher
Warren Minor Christopher (October 27, 1925March 18, 2011) was an American lawyer, diplomat, and politician.
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Watts Labor Community Action Committee
The Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) is a non-profit, 501 (c) 3 organization incorporated in the State of California, in 1965.
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Watts Station
Watts Station is a train station built in 1904 in Watts, Los Angeles, California.
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Watts Writers Workshop
The Watts Writers Workshop was a creative writing group initiated by screenwriter Budd Schulberg in the wake of the devastating August 1965 Watts Riots in South Central Los Angeles (now South Los Angeles).
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Watts, Los Angeles
Watts is a neighborhood in southern Los Angeles, California.
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Wattstax
Wattstax was a benefit concert organized by Stax Records to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the 1965 riots in the African-American community of Watts, Los Angeles.
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West Coast hip hop
West Coast hip hop is a hip hop music regional genre that encompasses any artists or music that originate in the West Coast region of the United States.
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Western United States
The Western United States, commonly referred to as the American West, the Far West, or simply the West, traditionally refers to the region comprising the westernmost states of the United States.
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What's Going On (Marvin Gaye album)
What's Going On is the eleventh studio album by soul musician Marvin Gaye, released May 21, 1971, on the Motown-subsidiary label Tamla Records.
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What's Going On (Marvin Gaye song)
"What's Going On" is a song by American recording artist Marvin Gaye, released in 1971 on the Motown subsidiary Tamla.
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Willowbrook, California
Willowbrook, alternatively named Willow Brook, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Los Angeles County, California.
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Windansea Beach
Windansea Beach is a stretch of coastline located in La Jolla, a community of San Diego, California.
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Workers World Party
The Workers World Party (WWP) is a Marxist–Leninist political party in the United States.
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Zev Yaroslavsky
Zev Yaroslavsky is a politician from Los Angeles County, California.
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149th Armor Regiment
The 149th Armor Regiment was an armor regiment that was part of the California Army National Guard.
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160th Infantry Regiment (United States)
The 160th Infantry Regiment is an infantry regiment of the United States Army.
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184th Infantry Regiment (United States)
The 184th Infantry Regiment (Second California) is an infantry regiment of the United States Army consisting of soldiers from the California Army National Guard.
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1965
No description.
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1965 in the United States
Events from the year 1965 in the United States.
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1966 Pulitzer Prize
The following are the Pulitzer Prizes for 1966.
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1967 Detroit riot
The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot was the bloodiest race riot in the "Long, hot summer of 1967".
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1967 Milwaukee riot
The 1967 Milwaukee riot was one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States cities during the "Long Hot Summer of 1967".
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1967 Newark riots
The 1967 Newark riots was one of 159 race riots that swept cities in the United States during the "Long Hot Summer of 1967".
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1992 Los Angeles riots
The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King riots, the South Central riots, the 1992 Los Angeles civil disturbance, the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest, the 1992 Los Angeles Uprising, and the Battle of Los Angeles, were a series of riots, lootings, arsons, and civil disturbances that occurred in Los Angeles County, California in April and May 1992.
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1992 Los Angeles riots in popular culture
This article lists examples of the ongoing influence on popular culture of the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
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40th Infantry Division (United States)
The 40th Infantry Division ("Sunshine Division") is a modular division of the United States Army.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watts_riots
