Mapping The Watts Riots

Fifty years agone yesterday a a dark motorist was arrested for drunk-driving inwards the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. An declaration ensued which speedily escalated from a nipper disturbance into a riot, followed past times half-dozen days of looting in addition to arson.

In Dec 1965 the McCone Commission study was published. The study documented the results of the McCone Commission research into the riot in addition to its causes. It besides contained recommendations every bit to how the Watts expanse could endure improved inwards gild to ensure that this scale of social unrest never occurred again.

The study included a map of the Watts curfew expanse imposed by California Lt. Gov. Glenn Anderson. This map besides contained data, compiled past times the Los Angeles Police Department in addition to the Los Angeles Sheriff's Office, on the devastation caused inwards Watts over the half-dozen days of rioting.

The Los Angeles Times has created an interactive version of the map using the Leaflet mapping library. You tin purpose the Inside the Curfew Zone map to meet the extent of the curfew zone in addition to the information compiled past times the Los Angeles police.

The LA Times has besides added a issue of markers linking to master copy photographs taken during the riots. If you lot select 1 of the photographic tv camera icons on the map the spider web page scrolls downward to exhibit the photograph in addition to a description of what is depicted inwards the photograph.