Angela Davis | Angela Davis

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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

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...

Angela Davis | Angela Davis

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