The five days of violence left 34 dead, 1,032 injured, nearly 4,000 arrested, and $40 million worth of property destroyed. The Watts riot was the worst urban riot in 20 years and foreshadowed the many rebellions to occur in ensuing years during the 1967 Detroit Riots, the Newark Riots, and other violence. Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness.
For other people named William Mays, see William Mays (disambiguation). Willie Howard Mays, Jr. (born May 6, 1931), nicknamed The Say Hey Kid, is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) center fielder who spent almost all of his 22-season career playing for the New York and San Francisco Giants, before finishing with the New York Mets.
He returned, however, to India and took a position on the staff of The Lahore Civil and Military Gazette, writing for the Indian press until about 1890, when he went to England, where he has lived ever since, with the exception of a short sojourn in America.ee Willie Winkie, which contains that stirring and heroic fragment Drums of the Fore and Aft, is only a trifle less notable than his more obviously juvenile collections. Just-So Stories and the two Jungle Books (prose interspersed with lively rhymes) are classics for young people of all ages.