The Watts Riot was a race riot that took place in Los Angeles from August 11 to 17, 1965. The Watts Riot, who shouted and acted violently for six days and It ended with about forty million dollars in damages, making it the largest and most expensive fight against city authority in civil rights history. The riot aided the event of August 11, 1965 when Marquette Frye, a black traveler, was stopped and arrested by Lee W. Minikus. Tense forces between police officers and the crowd erupted into a violent exchange. The outbreak of the brutal rebellion that followed Frye's arrest immediately sparked a major riot centered in the riot's business section, a deeply extremely poor African-American neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. For many days, rioters burned everything in sight and robbed and damaged department stores, grocery stores, and anything they could damage. Over the course of six days, more than 14,000 California National Guard troops stood ready for action in South Los Angeles and in a curfew zone that included ...