of Watts Station saw the rapid development of Watts as an independent city, but in 1926 it was consolidated with Los Angeles. By the 1940s, Watts transformed...
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The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles...
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Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles. The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park encompasses the Watts Towers site. Sabato ("Simon" or...
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alliance situated in the Nickerson Gardens public housing projects in Watts, Los Angeles. The gang was originally established in 1969 but became well established...
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The Grape Street Watts Crips is a set of the Crips gang based in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. The gang's rivalry with the Bounty Hunter Bloods...
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The Watts truce was a 1992 peace agreement among rival street gangs in Los Angeles, California, declared in the neighborhood of Watts. The truce was reached...
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South Los Angeles, also known as South Central Los Angeles or simply South Central, is a region in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, lying...
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Imperial Courts (redirect from Imperial Courts, Los Angeles, CA)
Imperial Courts is a public housing project located in Watts, Los Angeles, California. 33°55′52″N 118°13′59″W / 33.930984°N 118.233048°W / 33.930984;...
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which began in 1981, to Watts as part of a low-income home ownership program in partnership with the City of Los Angeles. Watts Labor Community Action...
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Jordan Downs (redirect from Jordan Downs, Los Angeles, CA)
Jordan Downs is a 700-unit public housing apartment complex in Watts, Los Angeles, California, next to David Starr Jordan High School. It consists of 103...
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Nickerson Gardens (redirect from Nickerson Gardens, Los Angeles, California)
East 114th Street in Watts, Los Angeles, California. Nickerson Gardens is the largest public housing development in Los Angeles and was the first home...
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Warner Center Watts Wellington Square West Adams West Adams Heights Westchester Westdale Western Heights West Hills Westlake West Los Angeles Westside Village...
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Look up watts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Watts is plural for watt, the unit of power. Watts may also refer to: Watts (surname), a list of people...
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Mujahid Abdul-Karim (section Relocation to Watts, Los Angeles & Conversion to Sunni Islam (1970 - 1980))
Crips, Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, and PJ Watts Crips. He is imam of Masjid Al Rasul mosque in Watts, Los Angeles and the leader of The Imam Mahdi Movement...
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south, Central Avenue passes through Downtown Los Angeles, the areas of South Los Angeles (including Watts, Florence-Graham, Willowbrook), the city of Compton...
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Asian Boyz Grape Street Watts Crips Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips Sons of Samoa Tongan Crip Gang Venice Shoreline Crips Los Angeles crime family Peckerwood...
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Blume, Howard (2020-10-08). "Watts' Jordan High cuts association with promoter of eugenics but keeps partial name". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-10-09...
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Crips–Bloods gang war (category African-American history in Los Angeles)
Ross introduced crack cocaine to South Los Angeles Bloods and Crips gangs, and both gangs became distributors. Watts housing projects became "open-air drug...
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The Watts Gang Task Force (also known as the WGTF) is a community-based group that was created to reduce gang related crime in the Watts, Los Angeles, California...
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The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles...
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and producer. Dixon, the youngest of seven children, was born in Watts, Los Angeles, California, and was raised in the Jordan Downs public housing projects...
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Weather Service Los Angeles is a local office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions in Los Angeles, Ventura, Santa...
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Richard Elfman (category People from Watts, Los Angeles)
stage production of Igor Stravinsky's L'Histoire du soldat, which won a Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Production. Elfman made a film titled...
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Viola Wills (category People from Watts, Los Angeles)
became much better known. Born Viola Mae Wilkerson in the Watts district of South Los Angeles, Wills was married in her teens. She was the mother of six...
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force against Rodney King Watts riots, of 1965, following an arrest for drunk driving in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots, in 1943...
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States census found that non-Hispanic whites were becoming a minority in Los Angeles. Estimates for the 2010 United States census results find Latinos to...
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The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles...
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Century Boulevard (redirect from Century Boulevard (Los Angeles))
Gateway to Los Angeles". Century Boulevard passes through Watts, Harbor Gateway, South Los Angeles, Inglewood, and Westchester. Upon its connection to the...
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03 Greedo (category People from Watts, Los Angeles)
rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer from the Watts neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles, California. He began to gain recognition for his Purple...
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The Los Angeles Times is a daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California, in 1881. Based in the Greater Los Angeles area city of El...
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