WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH - PROFILE

ANGELA DAVIS is a social/political activist, author, scholar and educator.

Born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama, this sensitive child of the fifties, who became a militant revolutionary child of the sixties, and a political prisoner of the seventies, who was once on the FBI's "most wanted list,"  now continues to fight  for the rights of women, as well as for the rights of Black people, and all oppressed people in this country against poverty and racism.

Davis was influenced at an early age by her mother, Sallye Davis, who protested against the imprisonment of the Scottsboro Boys, and participated in the activities of the NAACP in the mid-fifties, even though the organization was outlawed in Birmingham at that time. She learned from her mother's involvement in activism that protest against the system was a viable means of getting your cause noticed by the powers that be. 

Davis also was influenced by, and learned about the nature of oppression from her grandmother, who often talked about the evils of slavery, and racism, so that her children, and grandchildren "would never forget" where they came from. What we have here then, is three generations of Black women who passed the word down from one to the next, "don't give up the fight." 

                                     

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