Race riots -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department records
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
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Los Angeles Riots collection
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31275049000616]
Identifier: 5184
Abstract
This collection documents the University of Southern California's responses and cleanup involvement in the Los Angeles Riots.
Dates:
1992
Found in:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Eui-Young Yu collection of newspaper clippings on the 1992 Los Angeles Riots
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
Found in:
USC Libraries East Asian Library