Introduction: A movement history
Setting the agenda (1960)
I. A new breed. Warden of the ghetto: LAPD Chief William H. Parker
L.A. to Mississippi, goddamn: the freedom rides (1961)
"God's angry men": the Black Muslims (1962)
but now!": L.A's United Civil Rights Movement (1963)
Jericho stands: the beginning of the backlash (summer and fall 1963)
Equality scorned: the repeal of Fair Housing (1964)
II. Alternative culture. From "ban the bomb" to "stop the war": women strike for peace (1961-67)
From Bach to "Tanya": KPFK Radio (1959-74)
A quarter of a million readers: the LA Free Press (1964-70)
Before Stonewall: Gay L.A. (1964-70)
Sister Corita and the Cardinal: Catholic power and protest (1964-73)
III. The explosion. The midnight hour: the Watts Uprising (August 1965)
Whitewash: the McCone Commission and its critics (1965-66)
Cultural revolution: the Watts Renaissance (1965-67)
Black power: Stokely Carmichael and the Black Congress (1966)
The cat arrives: the Panthers and US (1967-68)
IV. Vietnam comes home. "Unlawful assembly": the Century City Police Riot (1967)
Eldridge Cleaver for president: the Peace and Freedom Party (1967-68)
"Time to stand up": draft resistance and sanctuary (1967-69)
V. The great high school rebellion. Riot nights on Sunset Strip (1966-68)
The children of Malcolm X: Black high school activists (1968-69)
VI. There is only the gun. A "movement crusade": Bradley for mayor (1969)
Living in the lion's mouth: the UCLA murders (1968-69)
Killing the Panthers (1969-70)
VII. Reigns of repression. The ash grove and the Gusanos (1968-73)
"The last place that sort of thing would happen": Valley State (1968-70)
The battle for the last poor beach: Venice (1969)
Generation Chicano: Aztlán versus Vietnam (1969)
War on the Eastside: the Chicano moratorium (1970)
VIII. Other liberations. The many faces of women's liberation (1967-74)
"Everybody wanted it": the free clinic (1967-70)
Gidra: Asian American radicalism (1969-74)
L.A.'s Black Woodstock: Wattstax (1972)
Epilogue: Sowing the future
