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“An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend.”
—Ibram X. Kendi

features an expansive new introduction by the author.

—Angela Y. Davis

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. 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

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      Publisher: Haymarket Books
      Publication Date: 02/05/2023
      ISBN13: 9781642598988, 978-1642598988
      ISBN10: 1642598984
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      Autobiography: historical, political and military Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      “An activist. An author. A scholar. An abolitionist. A legend.”
      —Ibram X. Kendi

      features an expansive new introduction by the author.

      —Angela Y. Davis

      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. 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.

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