Angela Davis (Cyclopedia of World Authors)
Angela Yvonne Davis was raised in the integrated section of Birmingham, Alabama, that was known as Dynamite Hill. Both of her parents had attended college and become teachers, although her father left the teaching profession because he could make a better living running a service station. In Angela Davis: An Autobiography the author criticizes the “Booker T. Washington syndrome” that afflicted the educational system in the South, where African Americans were promised falsely that they would be rewarded for their work.
In order to escape the South, Davis passed up the...
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