Category: The Black Star Collection
Object Type: photograph
Photographer: JACOBS JR., Lou
Title: Untitled [Roadblock, Watts Rebellion, Los Angeles, California, United States], 1965
Event Date: 1965-08
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.270687

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: [in blue ink] Los Angeles Riots; handwritten: [in graphite] Not used / T. McGrath [circled]; stamped: [in black ink] Credit: [black star] / Lou Jacobs / from BLACK STAR; handwritten: [in graphite] 3/10/83 / Hot / ch. 20; typed: [in black ink on paper adhered with tape] 20-25 - Roadblock by XXXXXX sheriffs and policemen, to catch / looters carrying away booty. About every third car seemed to be full of / liquor, food, appliances.

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: RIOTS / CIVIL RIGHTS-LOS ANGELES-WATTS RIOTS 1965
Retouching: N