”Īngela Davis was born in 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, one of four children of B. Rather, I ’m doing it only because I feel there ’s something important that needs to be conveyed. ”She added: “I try never to take myself for granted as somebody who should be out there speaking. But I feel that I should accept that role for what it can accomplish for all of us. It was, in a sense, a historical accident that I was the one. I didn ’t choose to be the target of the repression at that time.
“I know I wouldn ’t have sought this kind of public life -if it had been something that I could have chosen, ” she said.
”ĭavis admitted in Essence that she is “always amazed ” that she is invited to give so many speeches even now, decades after young people demonstrated on her behalf with “Free Angela ” placards. In 19 she ran for vice-president of the United States on the Communist Party ticket. ”She is active in five organizations, among them the Communist Party U.S.A., in which she is the major Black figure and plays a leading role … She travels extensively both in the United States and abroad, lecturing to diverse audiences, from college students to white male union members. “Angela is one of the most well-known women in the United States -and one of the busiest, ” wrote Cheryll Y. ” Subsequent decades have found Davis to be an impassioned worker for the causes of nationalized health care, civil rights, and nuclear disarmament. As Melba Beals put it in People, “In the idol-seeking rebellion of the American ’60s, Angela Davis became a lightning rod almost in spite of herself. For a time in the early 1970s she was on the Federal Bureau of Investigation ’s “Ten Most Wanted List, ” a distinction that brought her worldwide recognition as a victim of political repression. Davis was fired from a prestigious professorship because she was a Communist and later was jailed for sixteen months for crimes she did not commit. The energetic Davis became embroiled in controversy in California at the end of the 1960s and emerged as an international symbol of a proud, defiant African American woman under political siege. Political activist, writer, and public speaker Angela Davis has never wavered in her quest for women ’s rights and the eradication of poverty and oppression.
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