after the watts riots 1967

1967 AFTER THE WATTS RIOTS
I  was 4 a kindergardner :  mostly blacks and negro women who had to work and feed there families 

at home a home in the watts area became ghetto's
the stench of trash  ,  alley way full of riot  burned objects , it rain it seem like every day
 the rain put out a lot of fires, store remained closed, due to broken windows , broken locks and very un-safe store mostly teens , would dig for many things that was trashed and damage,  shoes , jeans, open hair parlors,

for sales and had taken dress racks to the streets to sale , buy this dress today for $2.00, my mom said those where the good day's  we would go shopping in parking lots in black area, early on saturday mornings sometimes i would see so much stuff it was everywhere, may i stay in the car , she said you will miss all this good stuff,

while every store in watts went out of business
most black family would sell the merchandise
themselves at home , on sidewalks, inside of there
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homes bedrooms full of clothes, the porch had clothes on hangers, damage and still with tags,
burned, how do you get smoke out of clothes...
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Illustration and creation by ms. Lisa C. Jackson