Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: JACOBS JR., Lou
Event Date: 1965-08-17
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.270720

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Aftermath of Los Angeles riots / Aug. 17, 1965; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / Lou Jacobs Jr. [handwritten] / from BLACK STAR; typed label: As you will have read in the newspapers, the riots started in an area / called Watts (noted for its Watts towers which were not involved) and / spread throughout a large Negro district in south-central L.A. On the / first day there was much pelting with stones and bricks, and the first / night the looting started.

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