SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE

A magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the sixtiesHistories of the sixties in the United States i nvariably overlook Southern California, but Los Angeles was the epicenter of that decades political and social earthquake. L.A. 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 ide ntity, a locu...[Read more]