SET THE NIGHT ON FIRE
Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties was added to L.A. Taco’s 2020 Book Guide. “This book list centers around Los Angeles and overlaps with creative nonfiction, poetry, urbanism, California history, music, and cultural studies. What follows are 32 books in alphabetical order by author—for the 32 years, it’s been since the Dodgers…
Jon Wiener discussed Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties during an online event via Zoom with the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities last October 23, 2020. Histories of the sixties in the United States invariably overlook Southern California, but Los Angeles was the epicenter of that decade’s political and social earthquake.…
Jon Wiener discussed Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties with Robert Scheer on the Scheer Intelligence podcast on September 17, 2020. “The core of this book is a chronological narrative of Black and Latino [people] organizing in struggle. It’s a movement history that starts in 1960, when young Black people in L.A.…
On Thursday, September 17, at 4:00 P.M PDT, the Liberty Hill Foundation will host its second virtual salon. Jon Wiener, Manuel Pastor, Judy Baca, and other activist voices from the ’60s in Los Angeles will be in a conversation. Please note that this is an invitation only event.
On the 50th Anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium (1970), historian Jon Wiener, co-author of Set the Night On Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, will discuss the Chicano movements of the sixties and their relevance today–along with artist Harry Gamboa Jr., Cal Arts faculty member and a high school activist in LA in the sixties, and UCR…