Rena Price, 97; played role in start of Watts riots Rena Price was in her kitchen in the Watts section of Los Angeles on Aug. 11, 1965, when a neighbor came to tell her that the police were arresting her 21-year-old son, Marquette Frye. She immediately raced to the intersection of 116th Street and South Avalon Boulevard, her red-flowered dress billowing.
June 30, 2013 - Boston Globe