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" Fire this time : "
Gerald Horne.
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BL
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846204
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Horne, Gerald.
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Fire this time : : the Watts Uprising and the 1960s /\ Gerald Horne.
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| Publication Statement
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Charlottesville :: University Press of Virginia,, 1995.
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Carter G. Woodson Institute series in Black studies
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443 pages :: illustrations, maps ;; 24 cm
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0813916267
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: 9780813916262
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| Notes
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Map of Watts and California on endpapers.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-424) and index.
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| Contents
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Toward understanding -- Rising up -- Death in the afternoon, evening, and morning -- Fire/guns -- "The hearing children of deaf parents" -- Black scare -- Iron fist -- The old leadership -- The new leadership -- The state and civil society -- A class divided by race -- Right, left, and center -- Politics : local and beyond -- Business -- Representing rebellion -- After the fire -- Epilogue : the 1990s.
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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. This is the first comprehensive treatment of that uprising. Property losses reached hundreds of millions of dollars and the official death toll was thirty-four, but the political results were even more profound. The civil rights movement was placed on the defensive as the image of meek and angelic protestors in the South was replaced by the image of "rioting" blacks in the West. A "white backlash" ensued that led directly to Ronald Reagan's election as governor of California in 1966. In Fire This Time Horne delineates the central roles played by Ronald Reagan, Tom Bradley, Martin Luther King, Jr., Edmund G. Brown, and organizations such as the NAACP, Black Panthers, Nation of Islam, and gangs. He documents the role of the Cold War in the dismantling of legalized segregation, and he looks at the impact of race, region, class, gender, and age on postwar Los Angeles. All this he considers in light of world developments, particularly in Vietnam, the Soviet Union, China, and Africa.
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African Americans-- Civil rights-- California-- Los Angeles.
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Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965.
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Afro-Americans-- Civil rights-- California-- Los Angeles.
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African Americans-- Civil rights.
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Race relations.
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Rassenunruhen
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Rassenonlusten.
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Rassenverhoudingen.
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Los Angeles (Calif.), Race relations.
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California, Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles, Calif.
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| Dewey Classification
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979.4/94053
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F869.L89N4 1995
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15.85bcl
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305.89607949422
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MS 3530rvk
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