LOS ANGELES RIOTS
Marissa Roth was part of the Los Angeles Times team that won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Best Spot News, for coverage of the riots that erupted in South Central Los Angeles in late April of that year, following the trial and acquittal of four white police officers charged in the beating of Rodney King.
A week after the unrest, The Times published a five-part series that looked at the events leading up to, and during the riots. Roth’s photograph of the skeletal accordion security gate of a burned out building, bearing a portrait of Martin Luther King placed there by a local man, was the lead image of the series.