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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 didn't live in this neighbourhood... if he had, he'd say love thy neighbour but locketh thy window. randall park: red fox, just felt like this comedic force. aramide tinubu: sanford and son is set in the 1970s in watts, and fred is crotchety old man who runs a jun...

1970s in watts, where there's this crotchety old man who runs a junk yard with his adult son lamont, who wants to sort of get rich quick. >> there's this woman standing out by the curb and she had a terrible voice. come here, sonny. i want to show you this. >> yeah, that's the way they took. >> must have been about 90 years old. >> ain't nothing on earth uglier than a 90-year-old white woman. >> he was like a black archie bunker. like old school. >> there's a reason why sanford is irascible. >> a court is where come to get justice, ain't it? and that's what i'm looking for, is justice. >> sanf...

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. the emotions were still raw 20 years later in 1985. >> special segment tonight. watts, 20 years ago ...

Many young people in watts today don't know much about the riots, but they know about present times. >> you walk this life. you live or die on the streets. >> nbc's tom brokaw went back to watts again recently to see how it's changed. >> 50 years on, the portrait of this neighborhood looks different. it's 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 daily and that you look at the calendar and say, is it really 2015? and then you see progress. >> i ...