Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s - Paperback
by Gerald Horne
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9780306807923ISBN-10:306807920UPC:9780306807923Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:American, 20th CenturySize:8.27 x 5.43 x 0.92 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCZSV6SZGJ
Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s
In August 1965 the predominantly black neighborhood of Watts in Los Angeles erupted in flames and violence following an incident of police brutality. The official death toll was thirty-four; property losses reached hundreds of millions of dollars; but the political results were even more profound. The civil rights movement was placed on the defensive as the image of rioting blacks in the West...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9780306807923ISBN-10:306807920UPC:9780306807923Book Category:Social Science, HistoryBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, United StatesBook Topic:American, 20th CenturySize:8.27 x 5.43 x 0.92 inchesWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCZSV6SZGJ
Gerald Horne has taught at the University of Zimbabwe and the University of California, Santa Barbara. His books include Black Liberation/Red Scare, Race for the Planet, and Black and Red: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War.
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