Davis, Angela Yvonne, 1944-2. Afro-Americans--Biography. I. Title. E185.97.D23A3 1988 322.4' 2' 0924--dc19 88-8232 CIP. For my family, my strength For my comrades, my light. For the sisters and brothers whose fighting spirit was my liberator. …
Angela Davis’ development of a public voice, however, is unique for a woman. She becomes a prominent spokeswoman for various causes, especially Civil Rights and the cases of those whom she considers to be political prisoners such as the Soledad
Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Her mother was a civil rights activist. As a child, she saw bombings in her neighborhood. White people were bombing the houses of Black people. They wanted to scare them and make them move away. This …
Today, Angela Y. Davis continues to be a strong force for political and social activism, as well as the reformation of the prison industrial complex. She is also an accomplished cultural theorist.
worker-activist, Angela Davis became the focus of a heightened, intensified battle of those key issues of African liberation-freedom of political prisoners and the liberation of women.
She was born in the 1940s in the era of Jim Crow and segregation. She has dedicated her life as an activist and advocate for gender equality and race relations. Davis was born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama to Frank Davis and Sallye Davis. Her father owned a service station and her mother was an elementary school teacher.
On October 13, 1970, Angela Davis—a 26-year-old Black American woman. Professor of Philosophy in a college and a communist—was arrested on a framed-up charge of ‘kid napping and murder’ by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.).