(CIVIL RIGHTS RIOTS) JACOBS L Group of 6 original gelatin s

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(CIVIL RIGHTS--RIOTS.) JACOBS, L. Group of 6 original gelatin silver print photographs of the Los Angeles Watts Riots of 1965. 6- 1/2x9- 1/2 inches; stamp and signature of the photographer on reverse. Los Angeles, 1965

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Six vivid photographs showing the "state of siege" conditions in Watts, a suburb of Los Angeles. One of America''s bloodiest modern race riots began on August 11, 1965, when Lee Minikus, a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer, pulled over Marquette Frye, who Minikus believed was intoxicated because of his erratic driving. After an argument regarding the impounding of the vehicle, a crowd gathered. Within a very short time, a full-scale riot began, lasting six days. By the time it was over, 34 people had been killed, 1,032 injured, and 3,952 arrested. It would stand as the worst riot in Los Angeles history until eclipsed by the Los Angeles riots of 1992.