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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • alternate title East Meets Watts, is a 1974 martial arts and blaxploitation film. It was filmed on location in Watts, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. It stars...
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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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  • 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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    Tyrese Gibson (category People from Watts, Los Angeles)
    the superhero film Morbius (2022). Gibson was born and raised in Watts, Los Angeles, California. His mother, Priscilla Murray Gibson (née Durham), raised...
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    Watts Station is a train station built in 1904 in Watts, Los Angeles, California. It was one of the first buildings in Watts, and for many years, it was...
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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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    Florence Griffith Joyner (category People from Watts, Los Angeles)
    children to the Jordan Downs public housing complex located in the Watts section of Los Angeles. When Griffith was in elementary school, she joined the Sugar...
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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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    population was 63,700. Areas in Los Angeles that were once predominantly white, such as South Central Los Angeles, Watts, and Compton became predominantly...
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    Richard Elfman (category People from Watts, Los Angeles)
    author and magazine publisher. Richard Elfman was born in the Watts district of Los Angeles. His mother, Blossom Elfman (A.K.A. "Clare Elfman"), was an...
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    The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) were a series of riots and civil...
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