Research assignment

Research Assignment

On the fateful day of August 11 , 1955 , in Watts , Los Angeles , California Highway Patrolman Lee W . Minikus apprehended Marquette Frye and his brother for driving drunk . Frye 's mother arrived and aided his sons in arguing with police . A crowd of black Americans began to gather around and they saw the police officer beat Marquette with a baton . Later on the three family members were hauled to a police car . The angry crowd pelted the leaving police car with rocks , bricks and bottles . The tension escalated that eventually became

a large scale riot . The angry mob , which swelled to thousands , went into frenzy of breaking windows looting , destroying properties and setting establishments on fire . The riot lasted for six days . After the rampage , a found dead , more than 1000 were wounded and about 100 million in property damage . The police also made more than 4000 arrests . The riot eventually was quenched when the California National Guard was sent to Watts to assist the police and military in restoring peace and These joint forces put a cordon around a vast area and declared a curfew . When the was restored , about 300 National guardsmen remained in the area to help in the clean up

The event made a great impact to Los Angeles . The McCone Commission was ed to make an investigation on the riot . It found out that the real causes of the uprising were poverty , unemployment , inequality and racial discrimination...