Credits and Links

The images used on this webpage came from various sources.  The pictures found on the home page and throughout the essay are courtesy of Co Rentmester Copyright Time Inc. and The Los Angeles Times.  Those used in the slideshow have been taken chiefly from other websites, including: 

• A Brief History of Watts:  1965 Watts Riot
• Los Angeles Junior Chamber of Commerce
• A Huey P. Newton Story:  Times - Watts Riots | PBS
• Civil Rights Oral History Bibliography
• Picture History - Mob Violence
• Picture History - Mob Violence
• History Project - Images
• Harry Benson:  Fifty Years in Pictures - The Digital Journalist
• Sons and Daughters of the American Tradition

Additionally, one image was taken from a site called Mike Milken Photo Album, which no longer exists.  The Picture History and Harry Benson sites do not contain any additional information related to the Watts Riot.  History Project provided several images, but the site’s search feature makes it unnecessary to link directly to them.  In addition, Sons and Daughters of the American Tradition is a satirical humor site that should not be taken seriously. 

While these websites provide valuable visual records of the Watts Riot, it is much harder to simply find reliable factual information about the event on the Internet.  For example, while A Brief History of Watts provides a useful (albeit brief) history of the district, it gets wrong both the year and the date of the riot.  In light of the limited amount of reliable Watts resources, the following links are recommended, in addition to the above: 

• Los Angeles Watts Riot of 1965
• 1965 Watts Riot Police Radio Calls
• Violence in the City:  An End or a Beginning?
• Sources for the Study of the 1965 Watts Riot

The first site is a short synopsis of the Watts Riot.  The second site makes available for downloading, purchase, or streaming nearly forty minutes of police scanner broadcast recorded by chance during the six days of violence.  Violence in the City offers an online version of the McCone report, which is necessary reading for anyone researching the Watts Riot, despite its flaws.  The final site is a list of books and other works, compiled by the library at the University of Southern California, to keep in mind when studying the urban uprising.  Some of the sources were used in the creation of this webpage, and most should be available at non-USC libraries.

All original material on this webpage was created by and is property of Kyle Blohm.