Put simply, hydraulic fracturing is the use of fluid and material to create or restore small fractures in a formation in order to stimulate production from new and existing oil and gas wells.
The riots began on August 11, 1965, in Watts, a neighborhood in Los Angeles, when Lee Minikus, a California Highway Patrol motorcycle officer, pulled over Marquette Frye, who Minikus believed was intoxicated because of his observed erratic driving.
Racism in housing. The Watts riots also drew into sharper focus the situation of discrimination in housing for people of color. In 1966, the California Supreme Court ruled that Proposition 14 was unconstitutional, a decision that was upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court the following year.