Essay On Angela Davis

A woman once said, “As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.” The woman, who said this quote, was Angela Yvonne Davis. Davis was a political activist, scholar, professor, writer, and Communist party member. She was considered to be an international symbol of the black liberation movement to many eyes of the people in the 1960s and 1970s. Angela Davis was born in the city of Birmingham, Alabama on January 26, 1944. She was the eldest out of four children. Her family was pretty well off compared to other black families living in the city. Her two parents

She attended blacks-only schools and theaters and had to go to the back of city buses and the back doors of shops. One time as a teenager, Davis and her sister Fania, arrived at a Birmingham shoe store. They both pretended to be French visitors when arriving to the store. After receiving different and nicer treatment by the salesmen and other customers, Davis dropped the act and began speaking in English. Her point was to let people know that black people only had to pretend to be from another part of the world in order to be treated like luminary. The civil rights movement was beginning to be in Birmingham when Davis entered high school. Both of Davis’s parents were members of the group, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Davis decided to leave Birmingham during her junior year of high

While living in New York, Davis lived with a white family, which was headed by an Episcopalian minister. The minister had been required to get out from his church after voicing out against Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. McCarthy was promoting about anti-Communist witch-hunts during this point in time. Davis went to Elisabeth Irwin High School. The school originally was a public school, but when the district cut off funding, the teachers turned the public school into a private school. At the high school, Davis learned about socialism and studied the Communist Manifesto. Also, she joined a Marxist-Leninist youth organization called Advance. The organization had pretty close ties with the Communist Party as