Beschreibung:
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.
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
Context * Introduction * Toward Understanding Uprising * Rising Up * Death in the Afternoon, Evening, and Morning * Fire/Guns * The Hearing Children of Deaf Parents Conflict * Black Scare * Iron Fist Impact * The Old Leadership * The New Leadership * The State and Civil Society Class Versus Class * A Class Divided by Race * Right, Left, and Center * Politics: Local and Beyond * Business * Representing Rebellion Meanings * After the Fire * Epilogue: the 1990s