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Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s Paperback - 1997

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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.

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AT LEAST 34 PEOPLE DIED IN LOS ANGELES during the Watts Uprising of August 1965; 1,000 more were injured, and 4,000 arrested.

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  • Title Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s
  • Author Gerald Horne
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Edition Unstated
  • Pages 452
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Da Capo Press, Reading, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
  • Date 1997-08-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780306807923 / 0306807920
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.27 x 5.43 x 0.92 in (21.01 x 13.79 x 2.34 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Southern California
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Cultural Region: West Coast
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Ethnic Orientation: African American
    • Geographic Orientation: California
    • Locality: Los Angeles-Long Beach, CA
  • Library of Congress subjects Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965, Los Angeles (Calif.) - Race relations
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 97005211
  • Dewey Decimal Code 979.494

About the author

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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