-Photographs Such as This One of the Watts Riots in 1965

question 37

Multiple Choice

-Photographs such as this one of the Watts Riots in 1965 were mainly intended to emphasize

• A) the brutality of law enforcement needed to resist an inner-city riot
• B) the heroism of the firefighters who were preventing blacks from destroying their own community
• C) the tragedy of the ruined neighborhood that was caused by its own residents
• D) the devastation of inner-city poverty that led its residents to commit desperate acts

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