GWS 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Highway Patrol, White Flight
4 Apr 2018
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A war on poverty, and the promise of community control . This reading focuses on the ways in which community activists, health advocates, and politicians seized on the openings afforded by the civil rights movement to create just health institutions in and for black los angeles. One of the first of such facilities was king drew medical center, the culmination of a long battle to build a black run hospital in segregated la (p. 52) King drew represented a convergence of institutional backers that were often in conflict with each other. The second project was the southcentral multipurpose health center, also located in. The encounter between the brothers- marquette and ronald frye- and a white highway patrol officer was the spark for the watts uprising. Over the next six days, 31,000 to 35,000 active rioters and 64,000 and 72,000 close spectators occupied a 46. 5 square mile area of south la, with the 20 square mile area of.
