Angela Davis (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Angela Davis
- First Published: 1974
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: The 1950’s to the 1970’s
- Setting: Birmingham, Alabama; New York City; Helsinki, Finland; Frankfurt, Germany; and Marin County, California
- Principal Characters: Angela Davis
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Politics
- Subjects: African Americans, Social action, 1960’s, 1970’s, United States or Americans, Social reform, Class conflict, Communism or communists, Politics, Prisoners, Prisons, Racism, Revolutionaries, Sexism, Socialism
- Locales: Birmingham, AL, California, New York, NY
Form and Content
Angela Davis, a socialist scholar and longtime activist for African American liberation, wrote Angela Davis: An Autobiography shortly after her acquittal on charges related to a 1970 Marin County, California, prison revolt. Davis had also been actively involved in the American Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers Defense Committee, an organization working to defend prison activist George Jackson and others against politically motivated murder charges related to another prison revolt. In principle opposed to...
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