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When the dark is at its deepest, the two women step outside. Told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction, Angela Davis’s autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle with echoes in our own time.
Angela Davis
"An activist. An abolitionist. Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S.
Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; and from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. An abolitionist. An author. How deep were the influences of a Southern and a European education? How did she elude the FBI? Where did she go? Of the turbulent sixties, Angela Davis is the last and, perhaps, the only triumphant figure."--Dust jacket.
A powerful and commanding story told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction.
What did she do? Who helped her? One of them is Angela Davis. What was her relationship with the Soledad Brothers?
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Angela Davis: An Autobiography
“An activist. A scholar. First published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, An Autobiography is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in struggle.
What precipitated her into political activism? Outside there may be men with guns or warrants--or both. "I am excited to be publishing this new edition of my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a time when so many are making collective demands for radical change and are seeking a deeper understanding of the social movements of the past." —Angela Y. Davis Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than 50 years.
Told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction, Angela Davis's autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle with echoes in our own time.
Angela Davis: An Autobiography PDF
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Angela Y. Davis has been a freedom fighter, and advocate for intersectional, abolitionist feminism for over fifty years.
Angela Davis--an autobiography
"The two women wait for the darkest part of night. A legend.”
—Ibram X. Kendi
This beautiful new edition of Angela Davis’s classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by the author.
“I am excited to be publishing this new edition of my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a time when so many are making collective demands for radical change and are seeking a deeper understanding of the social movements of the past.” —Angela Y.
Davis
Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. First published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, An Autobiography is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in struggle.Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S.
Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; and from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives.