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A district of Los Angeles, California. It was the scene of severe racial tensions and violence in 1965 and 1992.
Watts, residential section of south central Los Angeles. Named after C. H. Watts, a Pasadena realtor, the section became part of Los Angeles in 1926. Artist Simon Rodia's celebrated Watts Towers are there. Historically an impoverished black ghetto, Watts was the site of six days of race riots in 1965 that claimed 34 lives and caused over $200 million in property damage. Race riots again erupted in 1992 after the acquittal of white police officers who beat a black motorist; 58 people died and approximately $1 billion in property was destroyed. The African-American population has declined in recent decades while the area's Hispanic population has grown significantly. In 1990, almost 40% of Watts's residents were living below the poverty line.
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Watts may refer to:
- Watt, a unit of power
People
- Watts (surname), the surname of several people
- Watts S. Humphrey (1927–2010), American software engineer often called the father of software quality
- Watts (producer), a Canadian record producer
Fictional characters
- Watts family in EastEnders
- Curly Watts in Coronation Street
- Raquel Watts in Coronation Street
- Peter Watts (Millennium) in Millennium
- Watts, in the film Some Kind of Wonderful
Places
United States
- Watts, Los Angeles, California, a city district
- Watts, Oklahoma, a town
- Watts Community, Oklahoma, a census-designated place
- Watts Township, Perry County, Pennsylvania
- Watts, Virginia, an unincorporated community
- Watts Branch (Anacostia River), a tributary stream of the Anacostia River in Maryland and the District of Columbia
- Watts Branch (Potomac River), a tributary of the Potomac in Maryland
- Watts Island, Chesapeake Bay (see Watts Island Light)
Other
- Watts River, Victoria, Australia
- Watts Point, British Columbia, Canada
- Watts (crater), on the Moon
- 1798 Watts, an asteroid
Buildings
- Watts Towers, 17 interconnected structures in the Watts district of Los Angeles
- Watts Station, a train station in the Watts district
- Watts Hospital, the first hospital in Durham, North Carolina
- Watts Building (Birmingham, Alabama), on the National Register of Historic Places
- Watts Warehouse, Manchester, England
- Watts Mortuary Chapel, Surrey, England
Businesses
- Watts & Co, an architecture and interior design company founded in 1874
- Watts Gallery, an art gallery in Surrey, England
- Watts Communications, a multimedia company in Wisconsin
Other uses
- USS Watts (DD-567), a U.S. Navy destroyer
- Watts Naval School, Norfolk, England
- Watts (Pacific Electric), a light rail line
- Watts drill, a drill bit that is a type of mortiser
- Watts Riots, a 1965 riot in Los Angeles
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