Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties is a movement history by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener published in April 2020.

The authors combine archival research and personal interviews with their own experiences in the civil rights and anti-war movements to tell the story of this transformative decade.

[4] Set the Night on Fire covers a range of movements—the non-violent direct action campaign seeking the end of segregated housing, the gay rights and women’s liberation movements, the rise of Black Power after the Watts Uprising of 1965, the emergence of alternative media (especially the LA Free Press ("the FREEP")), and tells the stories of anti-war women, draft resisters, activist nuns, and the Chicano students in East LA who led the high school "blowouts" of 1968.

The story of police violence at the Black Cat Tavern in 1967 and the resulting burst of LGBT activism in Los Angeles,[7][5] the founding of The Advocate magazine and the Metropolitan Community Church are covered in Chapter 11, "Before Stonewall: Gay L.A (1964–1970)".

[6] The subject of religion and its role in the civil rights movement is highlighted by the contrast and struggle between the Metropolitan Community Church, Sister Corita Kent, Father William DuBay, and Cardinal James Francis McIntyre.

Jerald Podair writes in the Los Angeles Review of Books, But as the authors acknowledge, the unrealized hopes of the 1960s are also rooted in the incompatibilities and inconsistencies of the component parts of the movements themselves.

Perhaps the most heartbreaking was the inability of the African-American and Latino communities, each experiencing profound cultural and political change, to forge enduring alliances.