An Autobiography by Angela Y Davis; Abolition. Feminism. Now. by Angela Y Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R Meiners, Beth E Richie – review | Autobiography and memoir
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on April 3, 2022
Angela Yvonne Davis was born, in 1944, into a middle-class neighbourhood of Birmingham, Alabama, that was nicknamed Dynamite Hill because the Ku Klux Klan regularly bombed the homes of the African Americans who lived there. As a young woman she had something of a split existence. In Birmingham, where her father, Frank, owned a service station and her mother, Sallye, was a teacher, Black people were expected to sit at the back of the bus. In New York, where Davis lived with a white family for a while (as part of a project . . .
