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Uprising: Crips and Bloods Tell the Story of America's Youth in the Crossfire: Crips and Bloods Tell the Story of America's Youth in the Crossfire
By Yusuf Jah and Sister Shah'Keyah
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In the spring of 1992 the African American neighborhoods of Los Angeles - Compton, Watts, Gardena, South Central - were irrevocably transformed by the greatest domestic disturbance of this century: the "Uprisings," as they were then described on the streets.
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