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Class, and you get advertisers turning towards black people. so you can see why norman lear created sanford and son. norman lear: i was in las vegas, and the lounge act was, redd foxx. and i came back just delirious with the possibility. lamont: you know what it says in the bible, love thy neighbour. fred: the guy who wrote the bible didnt live in this neighbourhood... if he had, hed say love thy neighbour but locketh thy window. randall park: red fox, just felt like this comedic force. aramide ...

1970s in watts, where theres this crotchety old man who runs a junk yard with his adult son lamont, who wants to sort of get rich quick. >> theres this woman standing out by the curb and she had a terrible voice. come here, sonny. i want to show you this. >> yeah, thats the way they took. >> must have been about 90 years old. >> aint nothing on earth uglier than a 90-year-old white woman. >> he was like a black archie bunker. like old school. >> theres a reason why sanford is irascible. >> a cou...

Turning point for the country and for the civil rights movement. the riots started after the arrest of a young black man, who police suspected of drunk driving. there was a scuffle, and the arrest set off six days of riots in los angeles. 34 people were killed and more than a thousand others were hurt. watts was a wake-up call for the nation, that had just seen the signing of the voting rights act. the riots showed that civil rights issues ran deeper, involving policing, poverty, and education. ...

Many young people in watts today dont know much about the riots, but they know about present times. >> you walk this life. you live or die on the streets. >> nbcs tom brokaw went back to watts again recently to see how its changed. >> 50 years on, the portrait of this neighborhood looks different. its now a majority latino, and yet many of the aspects of life here remain stubbornly separate and unequal. >> you have some progress, and then you have some setbacks. there are things that happen dail...