groups called "Creative Generation", which was composed of several of the local street dancers who became popular on the television dance show Soul Train. Harry Dolan, the director of the Watts Writers Workshop, was attempting to keep it going after the loss of federal funding by holding a fundraising dinner in April 1973, but within months the workshop building with its 350-seat theatre was burned down by FBI informant Darthard Perry (a.k.a. Ed Riggs), who began confessing to his activities in 1975. Perry stated in a 1980 interview with WABC-TV's Like It Is that "funding had been cut to the Workshop, it had been cut out, but it looked like there was a possibility of a grant being given back to the Workshop and if there was no theater there would be no grant." Footnotes References Sources Rapoport, Roger (1977). "Meet America’s Meanest Dirty Trickster: The Man the FBI Used to Destroy the Black Movement in Los Angeles." Mother Jones, April 1977, pp. 19-23, 59-61. Widener, Daniel (2003). "Something Else: Creative Community and Black Liberation in Postwar Los Angeles." Ph.D. dissertation. New York: New York University. Budd Schulberg, editor, From the Ashes: Voices of Watts, New American Library, 1965. External links 1965 establishments in California 1973 disestablishments in California Arts organizations established in 1965 History of Los Angeles Organizations disestablished in 1973 Terrorism committed by the United States Writing circles