Sandra A.West “Riot!-A Negro Resident’s Story”

By: Miguel RamirezCrystal Nunez

Tomas Marquez

Activator• What do you know about riots?• What do you think are the main causes? • What are there results?

Objective: we will inform our classmates about the riots that took place in Los Angeles, and Detroit.

Watts Riot’s• Aug.13.1965• Watts, Los Angeles, CA• President Johnson was signing the Voting Right

Act -providing federal registration for Blacks to vote• Provoked by the arrest of a young African

American driver and also because a black woman was falsely accused of spiting on a police

• Consequently resulting in 34 deaths after 5 days of rioting.

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Sandra A. West “Riot!-A Negro Resident’s Story”

• This was an Article that Sandra A. West wrote in the Detroit News:– “Negros moved into Detroit’s near west side because it was a nice neighorhood” Yesterday they cried with

fear as burning and looting reged all around them I have lived in the area since 1954.Yesterday I saw sights I never dreamed possible. I saw things I had only read about or seen on television. Raging fires burned out of control for blocks and blocks. Thick black smoke and cinders rained down, at times so havily they blocked out the vision of homes 20 feet away. Looters drove pickup trucks loaded with everything from floor mops to new furniture. Price tags still dangled from the merchendise. Youngsters no more than eight or nine years old rode two on a bicycle with loot under their shirts and clutch in their arms,there was agony on the faces of those who lived close to the burning, afraid their homes would be burned, too. Friends of ours, in and out of the area, set up telephones relay systems with us to pass on any new information. Rumors spread as fast as the flames and it was hard to know what was true. By 5 p.m. it was necessary to close our homes to keep the smoke from saturating the house. At 6:30 p.m. the electricity went out. We could use our electric fan and were forced to open the house again. We walked to 12th street where the riots began. There we watched as arsonists touched off fires at two establishments within a one-block area. Bulgar alarms wailed out of control. They went unanswered. Negro-owned stores sported hasitily printed signs that read“soul brother”.A 12-year old boy flashed a diamond ring that he said he found on his lawn.On lynwood, Three blocks west of 12th,smoke so was so thick it was impossible to see one block way.some of the families on the blocks between 12th and linwood packed their belongings and prepare to leave during the nigth if it became necessary.we were one of those families. At the heighy of the rampage, several homes caught fire from the burning stores. A man his wife and two small children stumbled along the street with a suitcase and a bedsheet fill with the few belongings they could grab. Tears streamed down the mother’s face. The acrid odor of smoke burned our lungs and as the sun set we began rummaging around for candles and flashligths.neighbors told us they planned to sit up on their porches all nigth.by the 9p.m. curfew, the streets were relatively quiet, but fear remained etched on the faces of those of us who had to spend the nigth there.nothing stirred on the streets at 10 p.m.exept an occasional police car and jeeps and trucks loaded with national guards men. But the residents of “ this nice neighborhood ” were afraid that the riot wasn’t over. And it wasn’t.

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Other history Riots

In summer of 1967 urban rebellion’s also took place in N.Y Cleveland, Atlanta, Chicago,and after a year angry people started rioting in New Jersey after the assesination of of Martin Luther King jr

We also had some other riots in L.A like the riots in Korea town in 1992.

That riot was for

L.A riot in korea town

Deactivator

• What did you learn about the riots?• How many were they?• When did the Watts riot occur?• How many people wore kill in both of them?• What happen in Korea Town?

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