Policing - AAIHS

Remembering, Rethinking, and Renaming the Watts Rebellion

Stop referring to what happened in Los Angeles from August 11- 16, 1965 as the Watts Riot. Call the events

*This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

“This post is part of our roundtable on “Contested Citizenship,” organized in collaboration with the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study

On the night of March 29, 2019, an administrative building at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market,

The Communist Party (CPUSA) was a leader in the antifascist left in the 1930s. The Party had a broad