Los Angeles: The Far Country

To white Los Angeles, Watts is as much as ever a far country, inacces sible, invisible, incomprehensible. Yet in the six weeks since the ugliest riots in U.S. history made Watts a household word, city, state and federal agencies have worked overtime in a belated at tempt to understand and help the Negro community.

Last week a blue-ribbon commission appointed by Governor Pat Brown held the first of many closed-door sessions aimed at analyzing Watts's social and economic problems. A new city anti-poverty board had received $7,400,000 in federal funds, much of it to be spent in Watts. Fifty Los...

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