Watts Writers Workshop

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The Watts Writers Workshop was an association that wanted to promote literary writing. It was founded in 1965 by the screenwriter Budd Schulberg and the actor Yaphet Kotto in response to the devastating riots in Watts neighborhood in South Central Los Angeles . The association consisted mostly of young Afro-American authors from Los Angeles. For a number of years she was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation . US government files later published show that the workshop was overseen by the FBI for a long time . Well-known writers who were active in the Watts Writers Workshop include: a. Quincy Troupe , Stanley Crouch , Herbert Simmons and the Watts Prophets group .

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