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Item — Folder: 1
Identifier: 7140
Abstract
Typescript of Judge Widney's account of the riot and massacre of Chinese in Los Angeles, based on the trial of 10 people indicted for the murders, which took place in front of Widney as Judge of the District Court of the Seventeenth Judicial District for Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties. The massacre was the result of a shootout between several Chinese men over the kidnapping of a young Chinese woman, that led to a shootout with police and the death of a civilian. As a result, a mob...
Dates:
1871 November
Collection
Identifier: 0229
Abstract
The city of Los Angeles became the epicenter of a public relations scandal on March 3, 1991, when an amateur cameraman captured on video four uniformed LAPD officers beating motorist Rodney G. King. In addition to generating public outrage, the incident cast a dark shadow over the LAPD and called into question the integrity of the nation's third largest municipal police force. Subsequently, the ten member Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department was formed to conduct a...
Dates:
1991 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1991
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 5184
Abstract
This collection documents the University of Southern California's responses and cleanup involvement in the Los Angeles Riots.
Dates:
1992
Collection
Identifier: 0244
Abstract
On April 29, 1992, the city of Los Angeles erupted into riots after four LAPD officers accused of beating motorist Rodney King were acquitted of all criminal charges. The effects were catastrophic; in total, the chaos persisted for six days and resulted in 58 deaths, 2,383 injuries, and nearly a billion dollars in property damage. The extent of the human and material losses incurred from the riots, coupled with intense public scrutiny of the LAPD, led the Los Angeles Board of Police...
Dates:
1931 - 1992; Majority of material found within
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: 3388
Abstract
Collection consists of cassette tape recordings from the 1993 New Directions for the Korean American Community conference hosted at USC.
Dates:
1993
Collection
Identifier: 7019
Abstract
Kendall O. Price, a faculty member of the School of Public Administration at USC in the 1960s, organized with his colleagues a non-profit corporation called Public Executive Development and Research (PEDR) and worked closely with the School of Public Administration. They conducted two seminars and a conference which led to the Critique of the Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots. The seminars dealt with issues in the African-American community and included grass roots leaders...
Dates:
1965 - 1967
Collection
Identifier: 0348
Abstract
The papers of Warren L. Steinberg date from 1944 to 1998 with the bulk of the materials dating from 1966 to 1997. The papers focus on Steinberg's involvement with the City of Los Angeles Human Relations Commission, an organization that Steinberg was involved with until his death in 2004.
Dates:
1944 - 1998; Majority of material found within 1966 - 1997
Collection
Identifier: 0084
Abstract
Final report (1965) of the Governor's Commission on the Watts Riots.
Dates:
1965
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3329
Abstract
The Eui-Young Yu collection of newspaper clippings on the 1992 Los Angeles Riots includes 1,282 Korean articles from Hanguk Ilbo and Chungang Ilbo, and approximately 380 articles from the Los Angeles Times on the subjects of the 1992 Los Angeles Riots as well as race/cultural relations leading to and following the riots.
Dates:
1989-07-28 - 1995-11-06