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Watts is a residential district in southern Los Angeles, California. It is considered part of South Los Angeles. d Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ...
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History
A definitive story of this historic community is The City of Watts, California: 1907 to 1926, by MaryEllen Bell Ray, published in 1985 by Rising Publications. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 357 pixel Image in higher resolution (896 × 400 pixel, file size: 56 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Watts, Los Angeles, California, 1912. ...
Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 357 pixel Image in higher resolution (896 × 400 pixel, file size: 56 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Watts, Los Angeles, California, 1912. ...
The area now known as Watts began its modern history, after the arrival of Spanish-Mexican settlers, as part of the Rancho La Tajuata, which received its land grant in 1820. As on all ranchos, the principal vocation was grazing and beef production.
With the influx of white Americans into Southern California in the 1870s, La Tajuata land was sold off and subdivided for smaller farms and homes. In those days each Tajuata farm had an artesian well. The arrival of the railroad spurred the development of the area, and in 1907 Watts was incorporated as a separate city, named after Charles H. Watts, a landowner and civic leader. The city voted to annex itself to Los Angeles in 1926. Year 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...
Along with more white Americans, Mexican and Mexican American railroad workers ("traqueros") settled in the community. Blacks came in later (many of the men were Pullman car porters and other railroad workers); schoolroom photos from 1909 and 1911 show two or three black faces among the 30 or so children pictured. By 1914, a black realtor, Charles C. Leake, was doing business in the area. The ethnonym Mexican-American describes United States citizens of Mexican ancestry (14 million in 2003) and Mexican citizens who reside in the US (10 million in 2003). ...
A traquero is a railroad track worker, especially a Mexican or Mexican American railroad track worker (gandy dancer in U.S. English usage). ...
Watts was predominantly black by 1940. During World War II, several large housing projects (including Nickerson Gardens, Jordan Downs, and Imperial Courts) were built to house workers in war industries. These projects were nearly 100 percent black by the early 1960s as whites moved to new suburbs outside the central city. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki TÅjÅ Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...
Nickerson Gardens is a public housing apartment complex in Watts, Los Angeles, California completed in 1955. ...
Jordan Downs is a public housing apartment complex in Watts in Los Angeles, California. ...
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Longstanding resentment by Los Angeles' working-class black community over treatment by police and what was seen as inadequate public services (especially schools and hospitals) exploded on August 11, 1965, into what were commonly known as the Watts Riots. The event that precipitated the disturbances, the arrest of a black youth by the California Highway Patrol on drunk-driving charges, actually occurred outside Watts, but the district was by far the area most damaged in the turmoil. The term Watts Riots refers to a large-scale riot which lasted six days in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, in August 1965. ...
The California Highway Patrol (CHP) is a state agency that acts as the state police force of California. ...
Watts suffered further in the 1970s, with gangs gaining in strength. Between 1989 and 2005, police reported more than 20,000 homicides in Watts, most of them gang-related. Three of Watts' most notorious gangs—Grape Street Watts Crips, Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, and PJ Watts Crips—formed a cease-fire agreement after the 1992 Los Angeles riots, a pact that may have been tied to a decrease in crime in the area between 1992 and 2000. For other uses, see Gang (disambiguation). ...
The P Jay Crips are a Crip gang that operates in Watts, South Central Los Angeles, California. ...
The 1992 Los Angeles riots, also known as the Rodney King uprising or the Rodney King riots, were sparked on April 29, 1992 when a predominately white jury acquitted four police officers accused in the videotaped beating of black motorist Rodney King when he resisted arrest following a high-speed...
Beginning in the 1970s, many African Americans left Watts for other parts of South Los Angeles, and later the Antelope Valley, the Inland Empire, Orange County, and the San Joaquin Valley; they were largely replaced by immigrants of Ethiopian, Indian, Mexican and Central American ancestry. This process accelerated after the 1992 riots. A truck passes eastbound along the busy Highway 58 through the Antelope Valley. ...
The Inland Empire and its regions within The Inland Empire refers to the region in Southern California located in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties in the United States. ...
Cities in Orange County Orange County is a county in Southern California, United States. ...
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Neighborhood leaders have begun a strategy to overcome Watts' reputation as a violence-prone and impoverished area. Special promotion has been given to the museums and art galleries opened in the area surrounding Watts Towers around on 1765 East 107th St which is towards Imperial Highway towards surrounding suburb of Lynwood. This sculptural and architectural landmark has attracted many artists and professionals to the area. Watts Towers, 1765 East 107th St. ...
Imperial Highway is a road in Orange and Los Angeles Counties in California. ...
Location of Lynwood in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country United States State California County Los Angeles Area - City 12. ...
In July 2005, Watts returned to the news when a police SWAT team accidentally killed 18-month-old Suzy Peña who was held hostage by her father at a used-car lot in the area. Reaction in the community was divided between condemnation of Peña's father and calls for disciplinary action against the SWAT team, but the division in opinion was not strictly racial.[1] This article is about Special Weapons and Tactics. ...
Geography and transportation Watts is bordered by the cities of South Gate on the east and Lynwood on the southeast, and the unincorporated areas of Willowbrook on the south and Florence on the north. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ...
Location of South Gate in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country United States of America State California County Los Angeles Incorporated (city) 1923-01-20 [2] Government - Mayor Gregory Martinez [1] Area - City 7. ...
Location of Lynwood in Los Angeles County, California Coordinates: , Country United States State California County Los Angeles Area - City 12. ...
Willowbrook is a census-designated place located in Los Angeles County, California. ...
Florence-Graham is a census-designated place located in Los Angeles County, California. ...
The district's boundaries are Century Boulevard on the north, Mona Boulevard on the east, Imperial Highway on the south, and Central Avenue on the west. Principal thoroughfares through the district include Santa Ana Boulevard; Compton and Wilmington Avenues; and 108th Street. In addition to buses, mass transit is provided by the Blue and Green light rail lines of the Los Angeles Metro system, at the 103rd Street/Kenneth Hahn station on the Blue Line and the Imperial/Wilmington/Rosa Parks station where the Blue and Green lines meet. Imperial Highway is a road in Orange and Los Angeles Counties in California. ...
This article is about light rail systems in general. ...
The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority (also known as Metro, MTA or LACMTA) is the state chartered regional transportation planning and public transportation operating agency for the county of Los Angeles. ...
Kenneth Ken Hahn was a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for forty years from 1952 to 1992. ...
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist and seamstress whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement. Parks is famous for her refusal on December 1, 1955 to obey bus driver James Blake...
Watts is split between ZIP Codes 90002 and 90059. Mr. ...
Demographics Watts covers U.S. Census tracts 2420, 2426, 2427, 2430, and 2431. As of the 2000 census, total population in the district was 22,847. Racial breakdown was as follows: 36.9% black or African American, 15.3% White, 0.8% American Indian or Alaska native, 0.2% Asian or Pacific Islander, 43.3% some other race, and 3.9% two or more races; 61.7% were Hispanic of any race. The community has the lowest household income in all of Los Angeles County at $17,987. Per capita income stood at $6,681; 49.7% of families and 49.1% of individuals were below the poverty line. Unusually, the household income in the 1980 census for Watts was higher than it is today even with inflation. 1880 US Census of Hoboken, New Jersey The United States Census is mandated by the United States Constitution[1]. The population is enumerated every 10 years and the results are used to allocate Congressional seats (congressional apportionment), electoral votes, and government program funding. ...
Map of countries showing percentage of population who have an income below the national poverty line The poverty line is the level of income below which one cannot afford to purchase all the resources one requires to live. ...
Emergency services
Fire service Los Angeles Fire Department Station 65 (Watts) serves the community. It has been suggested that Warner Lawrence be merged into this article or section. ...
Police service Los Angeles Police Department operates the nearby Southeast Community Police Station [1]. “LAPD†redirects here. ...
Education
Primary and secondary education
Public schools Watts is located in Los Angeles Unified School District's Local District 7. The Los Angeles Unified School District (the LAUSD) is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. ...
Its local secondary public school is David Starr Jordan High School, which includes a math-science magnet component [2]. It has a student body of 76.5 percent Latinos, 23 percent African Americans and 5 percent other and, according to its website, is "located in a high crime area."[3] Its athletic teams are known as the Bulldogs. The adjacent Simon Rodia High School is a continuation school for students who cannot attend Jordan. Edwin Markham Middle School has sixth- through eighth-grade students [4]. David Starr Jordan High School is a public comprehensive four-year high school in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, USA. Some sections of Florence-Graham, an unincorporated neighborhood in Los Angeles County, are jointly zoned to Jordan and John C. Fremont High School. ...
Sabato Simon (or Sam to his friends) Rodia was an Italian immigrant to the United States who spent much of his adulthood living in Los Angeles, California. ...
Youth Opportunities High School, part of the Los Angeles Conservation Corps [[5]], is also located in Watts.
And 109th Street School [6]
Private schools The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles operates many area Catholic schools. The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles (Latin: Archidioecesis Angelorum in California) is a particular church of the Roman Catholic Church in the western region of the United States. ...
San Miguel School provides a Catholic education for about 200 students from kindergarten through eighth grade. Most of the families come from Latin America. Tuition is $145 a month. Many parents cannot pay on time, according to The Tidings online at [7]. Verbum Dei High School is also located in the Watts area. Verbum Dei High School is a private Catholic all-boys high school located in Watts, California. ...
Public libraries Los Angeles Public Library operates the Alma Reaves Woods – Watts Branch. The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) system serves the residents of Los Angeles, California. ...
Trivia On the 1972 sit-com "Sanford and Son," based in Watts, often made reference to problems in the district. In one episode, "Fred Sanford" (Redd Foxx) discusses this with a Los Angeles policeman. Sanford and Son is an American sitcom that premiered on the NBC television network on January 14, 1972 and was broadcast for six seasons. ...
Fred G. Sanford was the name of a fictional character portrayed by actor/comedian Redd Foxx on the 1972-1977 NBC sitcom Sanford and Son. ...
Redd Foxx (December 9, 1922 – October 11, 1991), born John Elroy Sanford, was an American comedian best known for his starring role on the television sitcom Sanford and Son. ...
- Officer Hopkins: "When we're finished, people will be able to walk down the streets safely in Los Angeles."
- Fred Sanford: "Yeah they can walk in Los Angeles, but they'll still be running in Watts."
The television sitcom Two and a Half Men includes a reference to Watts: "Charlie Harper" (Charlie Sheen) is importuned by his nephew to find a "Clucky's" fast-food restaurant. They end up at one in Watts, where Charlie is clearly in distress and tells Jake to stop talking and to "eat faster," after which he exchanges glances and a cautious word with the predominantly black and poor crowd around him. Two and a Half Men is an Emmy-nominated television sitcom centered around a freewheeling bachelor, Charlie, whose carefree lifestyle is interrupted when his newly separated brother, Alan, moves in, along with Alans son Jake. ...
Charles Irwin Sheen (born Carlos Irwin Estévez on September 3, 1965) is a Golden Globe Award-winning and Emmy-nominated American actor. ...
The movie Friday staring Chris Tucker and Ice Cube took place and was filmed in Watts.
The district is also referenced in the song "West Coast Poplock" By Ronnie Hudson, which was later covered in the rap song California Love. California Love is a rap song by Tupac Shakur featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman. ...
References - ^ Lee, Natasha and Richard Winston, "Shooting Cleaves Community," Los Angeles Times 16 July 2005: B1.
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