Never-before-seen photos of the Watts riots offer a startling look back at ... There are also aeriel photos of some of the fires and images of the LAPD and National Guard on the streets of Watts.

Columbia Heights and the H Street corridor as crime-plagued and abandoned. But those who lived through the riots haven't forgotten. Those wounds are still healing.

This story is part of the WTOP series “DC Uprising: Voices from the 1968 Riots.” Each day this week, we’ll tell the stories of the upheaval and tumult 50 years ago through the eyes of those ...

Following the 1965 Watts riots ... because of the LAPD’s actions during the riots. King, born on Jan. 15, 1929, and assassinated April 4, 1968, changed America forever with his leadership ...

A short article in the Aug. 11, 2006, Los Angeles Times reported on the origins of the 1965 riots in Los Angeles’ Watts neighborhood: “Aug. 11, 1965: At 7:19 p.m. in Watts, a California ...

Red, white and bruising: at the 1968 Democratic National Convention ... and whites marching together had been shattered as riots swept the Watts section of Los Angeles and, over the next two ...

In the weeks leading up to the 1968 Democratic ... iconic images of the 1960s could be boiled down to Cronkite reporting JFK’s death; urban riots, in Watts, Newark and beyond; Bobby Kennedy ...

Images from space so beautiful ... Kennedy was shot to death, too. The riots that shook Washington, Chicago, Baltimore and other U.S. cities in 1968 were far more destructive and widespread ...

The civil unrest in our nation’s streets has led many to compare what’s happening today with the rioting in 1968 that followed ... in the aftermath of the Watts riots in 1965 — ignited ...

The unrest, which came to be known as the Watts Riots, lasted nearly a week. While there had been — and would later be — other race riots in the '60s, the violence that happened in Watts was ...