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Set the night on fire : L.A. in the sixties /

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Davis, Mike, 1946- (Author), Wiener, Jon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; Brooklyn, New York : Verso, [2020]
Subjects:
Nineteen sixties.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > History > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social conditions > 20th century.
Los Angeles (Calif.) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • 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