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  Fire This Time: Watts Uprising and the 1960s (Paperback) By (author) Gerald Horne

  

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  Short Description for Fire This TimeBased on hundreds of oral histories and archival research, this account of the Watts Uprising of 1965, which changed the face of racial justice in America, studies its causes and aftermath. Included in the account are Ronald Reagan, Tom Bradley, Martin Luther King and the Black Panthers.
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  • Publisher: Da Capo Press Inc
  • Published: 01 September 1997
  • Format: Paperback 451 pages
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  • Categories: Social Impact Of Disasters | Ethnic Minorities & Multicultural Studies | Black & Asian Studies | Human Rights | Civil Rights & Citizenship | History Of The Americas | Postwar 20th Century History, From C 1945 To C 2000 | Social & Cultural History | Oral History
  • ISBN 13: 9780306807923 ISBN 10: 0306807920
  • Sales rank: 1,084,628

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• 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 replaced the image of meek and angelic protestors in the South. A white backlash ensued that led directly to Ronald Reagan's election as governor of California in 1966. This is the first comprehensive treatment of the uprising, its causes, and its aftermath, and is based on hundreds of oral histories and unprecedented archival research. With a cast that includes Ronald Reagan, Tom Bradley, Martin Luther King, Jr. , Edmund G. Brown, the NAACP, the Black Panthers, the Nation of Islam, and thousands of blacks and whites, Fire This Time is a compelling account of an event that changed the face of racial justice in America.