Wlcac

Non-Profit organization... Constantly changing the lives of all people in a positive way.

Ted Watkins, Sr. born in Mississippi in the 1920's, moved to California at the age of 13 on his own. He settled in Watts, married and raised six children Tamlin, Theodore Jr., Teryl, Lyssa, Timothy, and Tom. As longtime member of the United Auto Worker's Union, faced with the seemingly insurmountable injustices of labor discrimination against members of the Watts community, he organized and founded the Watts Labor Community Action Committee (WLCAC) in 1965, just months before the Watts rebellion. He built WLCAC to improve the quality of life in Watts: and that's what it has done ever since. After the riots Ted organized the youth of Watts to clean up blighted vacant lots, plant grass and flowers and turn them into vest-pocket parks, one of which remains erected in his name to this d