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Watts Four Years After Riot Aims for Quiet Change
Veteran UPI reporter revisits Watts to assess progress since the 1965 riot. Community programs led by Watts Labor Community Action Committee aim to reduce poverty, train youth, and improve police relations, with L.A. area job gains and a new hospital project offering hope amid lingering unemployment and housing damage.
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Watts
UPI
Walts
Will Rogers
Martin Luther King Jr
Memphis
Watts Labor Communist Action Committee
Ted Watkins
Department of Labor
WLCAC
Police Department
Jerry Conners
77Th Division