Featuring a new introduction by the author, Angela Davis: An
Autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle.
Angela 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.
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. 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.