Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Watts '65 - It Weren't No Jive!
Here we are, on the 50th anniversary of the profound and bloody Watts Riots, that CONVULSED South Central LA just days after the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was signed into law. I never thought I'd live so long, and many of my drugged-out generation thought the same. Some are dead and some living of course, but I bet few of them remember this particular societal catharsis. Here's the best book I've found on the subject to date:
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/832992.Rivers_of_Blood_Years_of_Darkness
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