"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.

About the Author

Angela Y. Davis is a political activist, scholar, author, and speaker. She is an outspoken advocate for the oppressed and exploited, writing on Black liberation, prison abolition, the intersections of race, gender, class, and international solidarity with Palestine. She is the author of several books, including Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Women, Race, and Class, and Are Prisons Obsolete? She is the subject of the acclaimed documentary Free Angela and All Political Prisoners and is Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Book Information
ISBN 9781642598988
Author Angela Y. Davis
Format Paperback
Page Count 400
Imprint Haymarket Books
Publisher Haymarket Books