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    of Watts Station saw the rapid development of Watts as an independent city, but in 1926 it was consolidated with Los Angeles. By the 1940s, Watts transformed...
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    The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles...
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    Register of Historic Places in Los Angeles. The Watts Towers of Simon Rodia State Historic Park encompasses the Watts Towers site. Sabato ("Simon" or...
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    South Los Angeles, also known as South Central Los Angeles or simply South Central, is a region in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, lying...
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  • The Watts truce was a 1992 peace agreement among rival street gangs in Los Angeles, California, declared in the neighborhood of Watts. The truce was reached...
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    gang situated in the Nickerson Gardens public housing projects in Watts, Los Angeles. The gang was originally established in 1969 but became well established...
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    The Grape Street Watts Crips is a Crip subset based in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. The gang's rivalry with the Bounty Hunter Bloods has been...
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  • Jordan Downs is a 700-unit public housing apartment complex in Watts, Los Angeles, California, next to David Starr Jordan High School. It consists of 103...
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    Imperial Courts is a public housing project located in Watts, Los Angeles, California. 33°55′52″N 118°13′59″W / 33.930984°N 118.233048°W / 33.930984;...
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    south, Central Avenue passes through Downtown Los Angeles, the areas of South Los Angeles (including Watts, Florence-Graham, Willowbrook), the city of Compton...
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  • which began in 1981, to Watts as part of a low-income home ownership program in partnership with the City of Los Angeles. Watts Labor Community Action...
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  • Warner Center Watts Wellington Square West Adams West Adams Heights Westchester Westdale Western Heights West Hills Westlake West Los Angeles Westside Village...
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    East 114th Street in Watts, Los Angeles, California. Nickerson Gardens is the largest public housing development in Los Angeles and was the first home...
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  • Look up watts in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Watts is plural for watt, the unit of power. Watts may also refer to: Watts (surname), a list of people...
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  • Blume, Howard (2020-10-08). "Watts' Jordan High cuts association with promoter of eugenics but keeps partial name". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2020-10-09...
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    Asian Boyz Grape Street Watts Crips Rollin 60's Neighborhood Crips Sons of Samoa Tongan Crip Gang Venice Shoreline Crips Los Angeles crime family Peckerwood...
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  • Crips, Bounty Hunter Watts Bloods, and PJ Watts Crips. He is imam of Masjid Al Rasul mosque in Watts, Los Angeles and the leader of The Imam Mahdi Movement...
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  • The Watts riots, sometimes referred to as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising, took place in the Watts neighborhood and its surrounding areas of Los Angeles...
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  • Hawkins House of Burgers (category Watts, Los Angeles)
    the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. It traces its beginnings to 1939 and has seen many events, such as the Watts and 1992 Los Angeles riots...
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    The Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), officially known as the City of Los Angeles Police Department, is the primary law enforcement agency of Los Angeles...
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  • Franklin Session (category People from Watts, Los Angeles)
    Killer 3's where he is a co-captain. Session grew up in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles and attended Jordan High School. Originally interested in...
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  • The Watts Gang Task Force (also known as the WGTF) is a community-based group that was created to reduce gang related crime in the Watts, Los Angeles, California...
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  • force against Rodney King Watts riots, of 1965, following an arrest for drunk driving in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots, in 1943...
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    The 1992 Los Angeles riots (also called the South Central riots, Rodney King riots or the 1992 Los Angeles uprising) were a series of riots and civil...
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    community organizer, based in Watts, Los Angeles, California, as the founder and executive director of Parents of Watts, a local youth outreach group...
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    Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California. With roughly 3.9 million residents within...
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  • 03 Greedo (category People from Watts, Los Angeles)
    American rapper, singer, songwriter, and producer from the Watts neighborhood of the city of Los Angeles, California. He began to gain recognition for his Purple...
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    Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles (Spanish: Condado de Los Ángeles), and sometimes abbreviated as L.A. County, is the most populous...
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  • Wattstax (category Music festivals in Los Angeles)
    the Wattstax concert. Being in Los Angeles during the Watts Riots in 1965, Hamilton later became aware of the yearly Watts Summer Festival that commemorated...
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    Watts Station is a train station built in 1904 in Watts, Los Angeles, California. It was one of the first buildings in Watts, and for many years, it was...
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