Set the Night on Fire
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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 expe
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Angela Davis at UCLA (October 1969) to give her first lecture
Police violence during the Watts Uprising (August 1965)
Father William DuBay (1968)
Mike Davis (scholar)
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Michael Ryan Davis was an American Marxist historian, public intellectual, urban theorist, and writer based in Southern California. He was best known for his investigations of power and social class i
Set the Night on Fire
…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…
Mike Davis
Mike Davis, left, in his childhood
Mike Davis with his father Dwight Davis in front of the café at Shelter Valley, 1952
Mike Davis, right, with Levi Kingston in Los Angeles