Watts Writers Workshop

The Watts Writers Workshop was an association that would promote literary writing. It was founded in 1965 by screenwriter Budd Schulberg and the actor Yaphet Kotto in response to the devastating riots in the Watts neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles. The association consisted mainly of young African - American writers from Los Angeles. She was promoted several years with funds from the Rockefeller Foundation. From later published records of the U.S. Government stating that the workshop was monitored over a long period by the FBI. Well-known writers who were active in the Watts Writers Workshop include Quincy Troupe, Stanley Crouch, Herbert Simmons and the group Watts Prophets.

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  • Roger Rapoport: Meet America's Meanest Dirty Trickster. The Man the FBI Used to Destroy the Black Movement in Los Angeles. In: Mother Jones. A magazine for the rest of U.S., Vol 2 (1977 ), April, pp. 19-23 and 59-61, ISSN 0362-8841.
  • David Widener: Something Else. Creative Community and Black Liberation in Postwar Los Angeles. Dissertation, University of New York, 2003.
  • Literary group
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature (United States)
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