The Watts Riots were 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 that ended with approximately forty million dollars in damage, resulting in the largest and costliest urban struggle against the civil rights authority in history. The riot contributed to the event of August 11, 1965 when Marquette Frye, a black traveler, was arrested by Lee W. Minikus. Tensed forces between the police and the crowd broke out in a violent exchange. The outbreak of a brutal rebellion that followed Frye's arrest immediately sparked a large riot centered in the commercial riot section, an extremely poor African-American neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. For several days, the rioters burned everything in their path and robbed and damaged department stores, grocery stores, and anything else they could damage. Over the course of six days, more than 14,000 California National Guard troops were prepared to respond to South Los Angeles and a curfew zone that included ...