Watts riots: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

Tags: Twinkle Undo Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

Tags: Visual edit Mobile edit Mobile web edit Advanced mobile edit

Line 87:

After the Watts Riots, white families left surrounding nearby suburbs like Compton, Huntington Park, and South Gate in large numbers.<ref>{{Cite news|title=On Race, Housing, and Confronting History|url=https://www.thedowneypatriot.com/articles/on-race-housing-and-confronting-history|access-date=August 23, 2020 |newspaper=The Downey Patriot |first=Aron |last=Ramirez |date=July 10, 2019}}</ref> Although the unrest did not reach these suburbs during the riots, many white residents in Huntington Park, for instance, left the area.<ref>{{Cite news|last1= Holguin |first1=Rick |first2=George |last2=Ramos |date=April 7, 1990 |title=Cultures Follow Separate Paths in Huntington Park |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-04-07-mn-591-story.html|access-date=August 23, 2020 |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]}}</ref>

With so much destruction of residential properties after the Watts Riots, black families began to relocate in other cities that had established black neighborhoods. One of these was the city of [[Pomona, California|Pomona, CA]]. Ironically, theThe arrival of so many black families to Pomona caused [[White flight]] to take place there and saw many of those white families move to neighboring cities in the [[Pomona Valley]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2015-08-08 |title=Watts riots: Inland Valley African-Americans faced same problems |url=https://www.dailybulletin.com/general-news/20150808/watts-riots-inland-valley-african-americans-faced-same-problems |access-date=2022-12-05 |work=Daily Bulletin |language=en-US}}</ref>

=== McCone Commission ===