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.2005.270721

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: Demonstration; handwritten: Aftermath of Los Angeles / riots - Aug. 17, 1965; typed label: TMP01JACO0001 05 / [copyright] 1998 Lou Jacobs / Black Star (212) 679-3288; stamped: [star shape] / Credit: / Lou Jacobs Jr. [handwritten] / from BLACK STAR; typed label: There were about 18 major fires set in a broad area, / using 1//3rd of L.A. fire department to fight fires. There was no sense / in the fires since they jeopardized Negro homes nearby the stores. A Safe- / way market was completely gutted: a large discount store (The White Front) / burned almost completely. Liquor stores and furniture stores were also / burned.

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