<description>&lt;p&gt;The Watts riots in Los Angeles - were they an uprising by black Americans angry at their treatment or simply criminally motivated looting and violence?&lt;/p&gt;</description>

What caused the 1965 Los Angeles Watts riots and what do they say about America?

<p>The Watts riots in Los Angeles - were they an uprising by black Americans angry at their treatment or simply criminally motivated looting and violence?</p>

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)

The LA Watts riots, 1965

The LA Watts riots, 1965

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