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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Mike, 1946-2022, author.

Wiener, Jon, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nineteen sixties.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--History--20th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.).

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social conditions--20th century.

Los Angeles (Calif.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Manners and customs.

Social conditions.

California--Los Angeles.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 788 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Other Title:

Los Angeles in the sixties

Place of Publication:

London : Verso, 2020.

Summary:

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 to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of Asian American as a political identity. It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and womens movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. in the sixties, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors storied personal histories as activists. Following on from Davis's award winning L.A. history, City of Quartz, Set the Night on Fire is a historical tour de force, delivered in scintillating and fiercely beautiful prose.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781784780227

1784780227

OCLC:

1154334863