Set the night on fire : L.A. in the sixties / Mike Davis and Jon Wiener.

A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the SixtiesLos Angeles in the sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. The city was a launchpad for Black Powerwhere Malcolm X and Angela Davis first came to prominence and the Watts uprising shook the nation. The city was home...

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Main Authors: Davis, Mike, 1946-2022 (Author)
Wiener, Jon (Author)
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Verso, 2020.
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Physical Description:ix, 788 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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Los Angeles in the sixties
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505 0 |a Introduction: A movement history -- Setting the agenda (1960) -- I. A new breed. Warden of the ghetto: LAPD Chief William H. Parker -- L.A. to Mississippi, goddamn: the freedom rides (1961) -- "God's angry men": the Black Muslims (1962) -- "Not tomorrow--but now!": L.A's United Civil Rights Movement (1963) -- Jericho stands: the beginning of the backlash (summer and fall 1963) -- Equality scorned: the repeal of Fair Housing (1964) -- II. Alternative culture. From "ban the bomb" to "stop the war": women strike for peace (1961-67) -- From Bach to "Tanya": KPFK Radio (1959-74) -- A quarter of a million readers: the LA Free Press (1964-70) -- Before Stonewall: Gay L.A. (1964-70) -- Sister Corita and the Cardinal: Catholic power and protest (1964-73) -- III. The explosion. The midnight hour: the Watts Uprising (August 1965) -- Whitewash: the McCone Commission and its critics (1965-66) -- Cultural revolution: the Watts Renaissance (1965-67) -- Black power: Stokely Carmichael and the Black Congress (1966) -- The cat arrives: the Panthers and US (1967-68) -- IV. Vietnam comes home. "Unlawful assembly": the Century City Police Riot (1967) -- Eldridge Cleaver for president: the Peace and Freedom Party (1967-68) -- "Time to stand up": draft resistance and sanctuary (1967-69) -- V. The great high school rebellion. Riot nights on Sunset Strip (1966-68) -- The blowouts (1966-68) -- The children of Malcolm X: Black high school activists (1968-69) -- VI. There is only the gun. A "movement crusade": Bradley for mayor (1969) -- Living in the lion's mouth: the UCLA murders (1968-69) -- Killing the Panthers (1969-70) -- Free Angela! (1969-72) -- VII. Reigns of repression. The ash grove and the Gusanos (1968-73) -- "The last place that sort of thing would happen": Valley State (1968-70) -- The battle for the last poor beach: Venice (1969) -- Generation Chicano: Aztlán versus Vietnam (1969) -- War on the Eastside: the Chicano moratorium (1970) -- VIII. Other liberations. The many faces of women's liberation (1967-74) -- "Everybody wanted it": the free clinic (1967-70) -- Gidra: Asian American radicalism (1969-74) -- L.A.'s Black Woodstock: Wattstax (1972) -- Epilogue: Sowing the future 
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