单词 | watts riots |
释义 | Watts riotsA group of violent disturbances in Watts, a largely black section of Los Angeles, in 1965. Over thirty people died in the Watts riots, which were the first of several serious clashes between black people and police in the late 1960s. notes for Watts riotsLos Angeles was the scene of another riot in 1992, triggered by the acquittal of white police officers accused of beating an African-American man named Rodney King. Words nearby Watts riotswattless component, wattmeter, Watts, Watts-Dunton, watt-second, Watts riots, Watusi, Waugh, wauk, Waukegan, Waukesha The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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