What set off the Watts riots of 1965?
What set off the Watts riots of 1965? Inciting incident On the evening of Wednesday, August 11, 1965, 21-year-old Marquette Frye, an African-American man driving his mother’s 1955 Buick while drunk, was pulled over by California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer Lee Minikus for alleged reckless driving. What were 1960s race riots? By the 1960s, decades […]