Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s) - The LA Watts riots, 1965

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

Published on Sunday, 22nd August 1965.

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