Turman was 8 or 9 years old when he and his mother moved to Greenwich Village in the mid-1950s. Glynn Turman was born on the last day of January in 1947.Īfter his parents divorced, he and his mother lived in an apartment tenement in Harlem with two of her sisters and a brother-in-law. He made a promise to develop a summer camp for kids that would introduce as many as 100 kids to “a dose of fresh air and a different way of life” that included horseback riding.Īlmost 30 years later, Turman described the annual Camp Gid-D Up and the work he’s done with his foundation as “one of the highlights of my life.” Actor Glynn Turman, who owns a 20-acre ranch north of Los Angeles, was among those at the gathering. King levied a stern challenge to all in attendance: Before leaving the summit, everyone had to not only promise to help bring peace and unity to their communities but also conceive an individual way to accomplish that promise.
They brought together civil rights and social justice leaders, well-respected Black actors and athletes and leaders from the city’s rival street gangs, the Bloods and Crips. ambassador to the United Nations - called for a peace summit. Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow, Coretta Scott King, and her husband’s friend and confidant Andrew Young - U.S. The sustained rage and violence - which had not been seen in LA since the Watts Riots of 1965 resulted in 34 deaths - had less to do with King and more to do with a growing sentiment that the mostly white Los Angeles Police Department and its scandalous police chief, Daryl Gates, had been racially profiling minorities, especially in inner-city neighborhoods like South Central LA, Watts, Compton, and Inglewood.
The acquittal of the Los Angeles police officers involved in King’s controversial arrest touched off what the History Channel has since characterized as the most destructive civil disturbance of the twentieth century and is estimated to have caused more than $1 billion in damage. King’s beating had been captured by an amateur videographer.
By the time a dusk-to-dawn curfew was lifted on May 5, and some semblance of order was restored, the riots had left 50 people dead, more than 2,300 injured, and more than 3,000 buildings either partially damaged or totally destroyed, according to various news reports. In this book excerpt, actor Glynn Turman describes how he got interested in horses as a boy, his history in competitive rodeo, and how, after the Los Angeles riots in 1992, he set up a camp on his Southern California ranch to introduce kids to horseback riding.įor five days in spring 1992, the world held its collective breath as it watched much of Los Angeles burn in the wake of four white police officers being acquitted in the beating of Rodney King.
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