Despite it being the mid 1900s, racism was very prevalent in Los Angeles. When Black people moved out of the South during the Great Migration, they settled in places such as Watts to escape Jim Crow laws. However, they still faced subtler forms of discrimination including racial profiling and redlining. Racial profiling is when people in power make assumptions of others based off of their race. Redlining is when different areas on a map are labeled with four colors to tell banks how “good” an area is. If an area was colored red, banks considered it a “hazardous” area and often wouldn’t give loans to residents. Colors were determined by the number of people of color in the community. This caused high tension in Watts, and in 1965, it boiled over when a man named Marquette Frye was driving with his brother around Watts and was pulled over by the highway patrol, accused of drunk driving. He was going to be arrested when his mother arrived. She tried to protect her son by jumping on the officer, who violently arrested the Frye family. A furious crowd gathered and began threatening and throwing things at the police, sparking the Watts Revolt.