Set the Night on Fire: LA in the '60s

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Thursday, August 13, 4 p.m. Eastern

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 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 women's movement, and, of course, the capital
of California counterculture.

With "Set the Night on Fire
," Mike
Davis and Jon Wiener have written 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.

Join Prospect editor at large Harold Meyerson (a child of both L.A. and
the sixties)  and Melina Abdullah (co-founder of Black Lives Matter
Los Angeles), in conversation with Wiener and Davis on the 55th
anniversary of the Watts uprising, as they discuss this timeless
narrative and its lessons for the social justice movements of today.

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