About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Aileen Hernandez, Akasha Gloria Hull, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Anna J. Cooper, Audre Lorde, Barbara Jordan, Barbara Smith, Bell hooks, Betye Saar, Beverly Smith, Carol Moseley Braun, Cheryl Clarke, Darnell L. Moore, E. Frances White, Eleanor Holmes Norton, Faith Ringgold, Florynce Kennedy, Frances M. Beal, Jewelle Gomez, June Jordan, Kimberle Williams Crenshaw, Linda Bellos, Lorraine Bethel, Margaret Sloan-Hunter, Michele Wallace, Michelle Cliff, Molara Ogundipe, Ntozake Shange, Patricia Hill Collins, Pat Parker, Paule Marshall, Shirley Chisholm, Sojourner Truth, Staceyann Chin, Toni Cade Bambara, Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Tricia Rose. Excerpt: Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a nationally prominent activist and radical in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA and was in close relations to the Black Panther Party, but was never an official member of the party, and through her association with the Civil Rights Movement. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of "Critical Resistance," an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department. Her research interests are in feminism, African American studies, critical theory, Marxism, popular music and social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons. Her membership in the Communist Party led to Ronald Reagan's request in 1969 to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California. She was tried and acquitted of suspected involvement in the Soledad brothers' August 1970 abduction and murder of Judge Harold Haley in Marin County, California. She was twice a candidate for Vice President on the Communist Party USA ticket during the 1980s. Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Her father, Frank Davis, was a graduate of St. Augustine's College, a historically black college in Raleigh, North Carolina, and was briefly a high school history teacher. Her father later owned and operated a service station in the black section of Birmingham. Her mother, Sallye Davis, a graduate of Miles College in Birmingham, was an elementary school teacher. The family lived in the "Dynamite Hill" neighborhood, which was marked by racial conflict. Davis was occasionally able to spend time on her uncle's farm and with friends in New York City. Her brother, Ben Davis, played defensive back for the Cleveland Brow
