![]() ![]() Mike Davis and Jon Wiener provide the first comprehensive movement history of L.A. 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 sixties was a hotbed of political and social upheaval. “Authoritative and impressive.” - Los Angeles Times This riveting tour through 1960s Los Angeles is a “history from below, in the very best sense” as it celebrates the “grassroots heroes and struggles” of the social movements of the era (Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Natural Causes). ![]()
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