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G&R Episode 34: From "Burn, Baby! Burn!" to Black Lives Matter--LA's Watts Uprising 55 Years Later
This week, 55 years ago, the Watts Uprising in Los Angeles began amidst a traffic incident with a black motorist and the California Highway Patrol in the South Central neighborhood of the bustling city. By the end of the week, 34 had been killed, hundreds injured, over $40 million in property damaged and destroyed, 16,000 national guardsmen and police deployed to quell the uprising and a new chapter in black radicalism began. A popular saying after Watts and after similar uprisings in in Detroit and Newark, NJ in 1967 became popularized-- "Burn, baby! Burn!"
Green and Red dives into the Watts…
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