This folder is from the WHCF category for Human Rights, subcategory Equality of Races/California.
File unit description: The events and aftermath of the riot in Watts, Los Angeles, August 11?15, 1965; calling up of federal troops; decision whether or not to declare Watts a disaster area; situation reports on daily events; programs to improve the conditions which caused the riots; Governor's Commission on the Los Angeles Riots chaired by John McCone, report and action on report's recommendations [Report filed oversize attachment 186]; and the President's task force on the riots. Several items not dated and filed 3/21/66 relate to the August 1965 riots and particularly to the Governor's Commission.