The Ron Wilkins Los Angeles Community Alert Patrol Collection contains Wilkins's published book, original Community Alert Patrol (CAP) materials including a volunteer roster and patrol reports, related news clippings, and Wilkins's teaching materials and speeches about CAP. Ron Wilkins was the head of the Community Organizing Patrol, founded in June 1966 to "police the police." The materials document police brutality and racism in Los Angeles, California focusing on the time period following the 1965 Watts Riots, also known as the Watts Rebellion or Watts Uprising.

Ron Wilkins is an activist and scholar focusing on Pan-African international organizing, revolutionary photojournalism, and strengthening mutually supportive relationships between Black and Brown peoples. He was the head of the Community Organizing Patrol (CAP) and a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).

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