The Watts Riots began on Aug. 11, 1965 and ended on Aug. 16, 1965 — and that day Gov. Edmund G. “Pat” Brown declared the riots were over. Here is a sampling of moments about the Watts Riots, or what ...

Sixty years ago, a young Black man from South Los Angeles was pulled over by a white California Highway Patrol officer after another motorist reported the man driving recklessly. What started as a ...

WATTS, LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- In the summer of 1965, newscasts delivered the roiling distress of South Los Angeles into the living rooms of America. What was not so visible was the underlying ...

In this Aug. 13, 1965 file photo, men carry items from a looted store during the rioting that enveloped the Watts district of Los Angeles. It began with a routine traffic stop 50 years ago this month, ...