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Watts Youths Take Lead in Self Help Efforts
Watts areas see growing leadership among the era roots as volunteers, foundations, and government grants fund job training. Billy Tidwell of the Sons of Watts Improvement Association leads about 120 youths, once called the Otters, who organized volunteer patrols during a three day summer festival drawing about 80,000 people including half white.
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Poe Records
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