Rivers of Blood Years of Darkness Author:Robert Conot It erupted out of a minor misunderstanding. It exploded into a blood bath that almost destroyed a city, that stunned the nation and shocked the world. It happened in Watts, but it did not begin there - or end. Rivers of Blood, Years of Darkness - "A masterpiece... Never has a reader been taken so thoroughly inside the collision of racial vio... more »lence to see and feel intimately" - San Francisco Examiner & Cronicle. Published in 1967.« less