40 years after Watts, a time to remember, rebuild: Activists try to teach younger generations riots' significance

LOS ANGELES -- The arrest 40 years ago of 21-year-old MarquetteFrye quickly drew a crowd in South Los Angeles. Someone threw arock, then another.

For the next six days, urban black frustration boiled over.Buildings burned across Watts and neighboring communities. Thirty-four people were killed, looters emptied stores, and the NationalGuard patrolled the streets.

Today, on the corner where it began, there are no signs of theuprising that helped transform the civil rights movement frompeaceful protests in the South to violent clashes in the nation'smajor cities.

Teens who skateboard past abandoned couches and fading apartmentssay they've heard of "the …