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Los Angeles police drag young Negro from front of a looted store

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1965 Aug. 13.
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  1. African Americans
  2. California
  3. Los Angeles
  4. Los Angeles (Calif.)
  5. People
  6. Photographic Prints
  7. Police Dept
  8. Race Riots
  9. Transmitted Images
  10. Watts Riot, Los Angeles, Calif., 1965

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