Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s by Gerald Horne

Fire This Time: The Watts Uprising and the 1960s

Gerald Horne

452 pages first pub 1995 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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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;...

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