![]() ![]() In it, the Fontana-born author revisits the time and place of Davis’ own early activism as an organizer in the civil rights movement and covers seemingly every aspect of the counterculture movements and brown and black rebellions that gripped the City of Angels in the 1960s.ĭavis had originally intended his project to be an oral history, but a bout with cancer inhibited his ability to travel and his interview subjects began dying – sometimes days before scheduled interviews. ![]() A former meat cutter and long-distance trucker turned activist, urban theorist, professor and historian, Davis took nearly a decade to write his latest book, Set the Night on Fire: L.A. Climbing mountains of documents and sifting through the reefs of people’s memories, the City of Quartz author pieces together dramatic events that have been obscured by the indifference of official histories or are vanishing with the aging actors who performed in them. ![]()
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