![]() ![]() Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of LA in the '60s, drawing on extensive archival research and dozens of interviews with principal figures, as well as the authors’ storied personal histories as activists. ![]() It was a locus of the antiwar movement, gay liberation movement, and women’s movement, and, of course, the capital of California counterculture. The city was home to the Chicano Blowouts and Chicano Moratorium, as well as being the birthplace of “Asian American” as a political identity. 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. Los Angeles in the '60s was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. A magisterial, riveting movement history of Los Angeles in the '60s. ![]()
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