Ron Dowell is a writer and 2018 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellow who will present at the Fallbrook Library on Aug. 11 his work exploring erasure and systemic discrimination
grew up in Watts and Compton, earned degrees in accounting, business, and criminal justice, and went on to work for Los Angeles County for 40 years. As he observed his personal and professional surroundings, he noticed both discrimination and erasure, and was compelled to go after them in his next life chapter — as a writer.
When we moved to the Palm Lane Housing Project, I was in kindergarten; by the time I got to the 10th grade, we were asked to move again, in 1966 right after the Watts Rebellion in order for them to build Martin Luther King [Jr./Drew Medical Center] hospital there. Both places have disappeared [the hospital closed in 2007 due to alleged incompetence and errors, reopening in 2015 asMartin Luther King Jr.
I do a lot of talking about institutions in both “Watts UpRise” and “Crooked Out of Compton” because I worked in LA County for 40 years and I had a good opportunity to take a firsthand look at some of these institutions and how they work. I made it a point to never stay in one place; I wanted to get out and figure out what the county was doing.
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