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Angela Y. Davis

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Nonfiction | Autobiography / Memoir | Adult | Published in 1974

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Essay Topics

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How did Davis’s youth in the Jim Crow South shape her activism?

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Explain how Davis’s communist beliefs informed her work for Black liberation.

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What is the overarching message of Davis’s political autobiography, and how does she support it?

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