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. Angela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements. Edited by Toni Morrison and first published in 1974, An Autobiography is a classic of the Black Power era which resonates just as powerfully today. First published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, An Autobiography 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. A powerful and commanding account of the life of trailblazing political activist Angela Davis. DavisĪngela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. “I am excited to be publishing this new edition of my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a time when so many are making collective demands for radical change and are seeking a deeper understanding of the social movements of the past.” -Angela Y. She is a founding member of Critical Resistance, an organization dedicated to the abolition of the prison industrial system. This beautiful new edition of Angela Davis’s classic Autobiography features an expansive new introduction by the author. Davis (1944 ) is a scholar, author, activist, and black feminist philosopher.

An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis