Set the Night on Fire by Davis, Mike -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Page Halftitle Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Maps Introduction: A Movement History 1. Setting the Agenda (1960) Part I: A New Breed

2. Warden of the Ghetto: LAPD Chief William H. Parker 3. L.A. to Mississippi, Goddamn: The Freedom Rides (1961) 4. “God’s Angry Men”: The Black Muslims (1962) 5. “Not Tomorrow—but Now!”: L.A.’s United Civil Rights Movement (1963) 6. Jericho Stands: The Beginning of the Backlash (Summer and Fall 1963) 7. Equality Scorned: The Repeal of Fair Housing (1964)

Part II: Alternative Culture

8. From “Ban the Bomb” to “Stop the War”: Women Strike for Peace (1961–67) 9. From Bach to “Tanya”: KPFK Radio (1959–74) 10. A Quarter of a Million Readers: The LA Free Press (1964–70) 11. Before Stonewall: Gay L.A. (1964–70) 12. Sister Corita and the Cardinal: Catholic Power and Protest (1964–73)

Part III: The Explosion

13. The Midnight Hour: The Watts Uprising (August 1965) 14. Whitewash: The McCone Commission and Its Critics (1965–66) 15. Cultural Revolution: The Watts Renaissance (1965–67) 16. Black Power: Stokely Carmichael and the Black Congress (1966) 17. The Cat Arrives: The Panthers and US (1967–68)

Part IV: Vietnam Comes Home

18. “Unlawful Assembly”: The Century City Police Riot (1967) 19. Eldridge Cleaver for President: The Peace and Freedom Party (1967–68) 20. “Time to Stand Up”: Draft Resistance and Sanctuary (1967–69)

Part V: The Great High School Rebellion

21. Riot Nights on Sunset Strip (1966–68) 22. The Blowouts (1966–68) 23. The Children of Malcolm X: Black High School Activists (1968–69)

Part VI: There Is Only the Gun

24. A “Movement Crusade”: Bradley for Mayor (1969) 25. Living in the Lion’s Mouth: The UCLA Murders (1968–69) 26. Killing the Panthers (1969–70) 27. Free Angela! (1969–72)

Part VII: Reigns of Repression

28. The Ash Grove and the Gusanos (1968–73) 29. “The Last Place That Sort of Thing Would Happen”: Valley State (1968–70) 30. The Battle for the Last Poor Beach: Venice (1969) 31. Generation Chicano: Aztlán versus Vietnam (1969) 32. War on the Eastside: The Chicano Moratorium (1970)

Part VIII: Other Liberations

33. The Many Faces of Women’s Liberation (1967–74) 34. “Everybody Wanted It”: The Free Clinic (1967–70) 35. Gidra: Asian American Radicalism (1969–74) 36. L.A.’s Black Woodstock: Wattstax (1972)

Epilogue: Sowing the Future Acknowledgments About the Authors Notes Index

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