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Angela Davis (Censorship (Ready Reference series))

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Davis grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, where her parents were involved with the National Association of Colored People and the Southern Negro Youth Congress. She received a scholarship to attend a progressive private high school on scholarship in New York, where she first attended Communist Party youth meetings. After graduating from Brandeis University with high honors with a degree in 1965, she did graduate work in modern philosophy at the University of Frankfurt, then returned to the United States and earned her masters degree from the University of California...

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