Editing Civil rights movement (section)

====Watts====
[[File:40th in Watts.jpg|thumb|Soldiers direct traffic away from an area of [[South Central Los Angeles]] burning during the [[Watts Riots|1965 Watts riot]]]]

The momentum for the advancement of civil rights came to a sudden halt in August 1965 with [[Watts Riots|riots]] in the [[Watts, Los Angeles|Watts district]] of [[Los Angeles]]. The riots were ignited by the arrest of Marquette Frye during a traffic stop, which escalated into a physical confrontation with police officers and drew a large crowd of onlookers. During the six days of unrest, rioters engaged in widespread [[looting]] of stores, burning buildings through [[arson]], and in some cases, using [[sniper]] tactics to fire at authorities. To quell the violence, [[National Guard (United States)|National Guard]] troops were deployed to the area, imposing a [[curfew]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Watts Rebellion (Los Angeles) |url=https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/watts-rebellion-los-angeles |website=The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute |access-date=11 December 2024}}</ref><ref name="Oberschall">{{Cite journal | last1 = Oberschall | first1 = Anthony | year = 1968 | title = The Los Angeles Riot of August 1965 | journal = Social Problems | volume = 15 | issue = 3 | pages = 322–341 | jstor = 799788 | doi=10.2307/799788}}</ref>

After 34 people were killed and $35&nbsp;million (equivalent to ${{Inflation|US|35|1965|r=2}}&nbsp;million in {{Inflation-year|US}}) in property was damaged, the public feared an expansion of the violence to other cities, and so the appetite for additional programs in President Lyndon Johnson's agenda was lost.<ref>{{cite book |last=Dallek |first=Robert |title=Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961–1973 |url=https://archive.org/details/flawedgiantlyndo00dall/ |url-access=registration |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-19-505465-1 |pages=222–223}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title=Lyndon B. Johnson: The American Franchise| date=October 4, 2016| url=https://millercenter.org/president/lbjohnson/the-american-franchise| location=Charlottesville, Virginia| publisher=Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia| access-date=June 22, 2017}}</ref>