African American Civil Rights Activists: Angela Davis

In 1969, Davis came back the America and joined several radical civil rights organizations. She was a member of the Communist Party, USA and a member of the Black Panther Party along with being an assistance professor at the University of California- Los Angeles (UCLA). Governor at the time, Ronald Reagan, tried to terminate her position as UCLA professor because of her Communist affiliation, but that was overturned. Yet, devastation struck only a few months later.

African American’s experience prior to the passage of the Civil Rights Act in 1964 can be explained with the use of the sociological imagination. African American people were troubled. Troubled by the inequalities of their fellow man, some trying to survive and some looking for self-advancement. The feeling of inequality is what led Rosa Parks to refuse to give up her seat on the bus to a white man in 1955. Rebelling against inequalities such as this by the African American people is what drove the Civil Rights Movement. The greater issue was not that Ms. Parks was not allowed to sit in the front of the

In her speech “Political Activism and Protest from the 1960s through the Age of Obama,” Angela Davis argues that Black history involves a constant struggle for freedom. This struggle is meant to expand the liberties of not only Black people, but of all marginalized people, and it has occurred throughout history in all parts of the world. As a result, Davis asserts that Black history and activism are universally relatable. She continues to discuss activism in her speech, at one point declaring, “we have to learn how to imagine the future in terms that are not restricted to our own lifetimes” (Davis 117). Her declaration means that social change does not come about if people passively accept the world’s current state. Instead, social change occurs when people “imagine the future” (117) that they wish to live in and work at shaping all aspects of society so that it will progress towards the future they envisioned.

She was able to get her name out into the public and she did not let the fact that she was African - American stop her she persevered through all of the hardships and finally made it. Angela is now known as the best radical African - American educator that help to influence many people's lives. Also, many people believe that she is a very energetic and enthusiastic women that always kept fighting for civil rights for women that also involve social issues. Angela Davis was very aware of all the racist things that had been going around during that time and in fact she had known that if she did not fight no one would do it for her so she got up and made it happen buy putting an end to all of this. Davis was always an independant women that did not want any help she wanted to do it all by herself and let her voice be

African Americans were fighting for freedom for centuries. They were treated very badly and they had supposedly going to have a better way of life after WWII. Keep reading to find out how African Americans struggled for equality in voting and the opportunity for a good quality education.

Angela Davis an Autobiography is a declaration of Davis’ life journey within “Bombingham” (Birmingham) Alabama to her political ties within Communist Party. Davis is a prototype of an anomaly within the US. She went from being placed on the FBI’s most wanted list, to escaping the death penalty, to becoming a professor at one of the premiere colleges within the US, University of California- Los Angeles . How did she do it ? What is Davis’ secret ? Simply becoming aware of the world she lived in, but was engulf in systemic ways of doing things.

Since ministers from the black church rose as formal charismatic leaders in the movement, there was not a situation in which a woman could be a charismatic leader.

“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” (William Shakespeare) No one can truly say who is born great and who is not. In Angela Davis's case she achieved greatness and had greatness thrust upon her. She was and still is an African -American female leader in a time where she did not meet the status quo. She was fighting for the civil rights of her people. She educated the masses on what it is like to be black in America. She spread the truth and wasn't afraid of the consequences. She is a force. To be all those things she must possess certain sets of qualities. After researching Ms. Davis, she has presented a certain set of qualities that make her such a dynamic and impactful leader.

Angela Y Davis is an anti abolitionist scholar who has radicalized academic work through her ability to frame counterculture as a way to challenge and transform the political,

The Civil Rights Movement was an unforgettable era in American History because it has influenced so much of this countries laws and norms, making what was at a time acceptable in this country extremely unacceptable and unpracticed. This inevitable struggle for freedom, natural human rights, and acceptance was a violent and non-violent volatile reaction to a broken and unjust system. Many leaders and citizens fought for the freedom and justice of the minorities in the United states of America during the Civil Rights movement, by using unique approached, strong strategies, and intelligence to earn this respect and freedom. Civil Rights leaders like the well-known Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and many other influential people bravely led the Civil Rights Movement and creating a new America where “the system of Jim Crow segregation and racism was reformed and eliminated”1 Additionally, the cause of the Civil Rights Movement, the various forms of protest, and the aftermath of the movement will be discussed throughout this essay, and the reader will be able to gain a stronger understanding of the Civil Rights Movement as a whole.

All of us, wanted to conduct our research on an African-American woman who helped with the Civil Rights movement. We wanted to shine light on a person that we don’t commonly hear of when we are taught about the Civil Rights Movement. We received a suggestion, that we should do a local topic. We searched for African-American women that helped during the Civil Rights movement in Charleston, South Carolina. We decided to do our project on Septima Clark because she was not commonly known as a civil rights leader.

Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks Claudette Colvin was born September 5, 1939 in Montgomery Alabama. She was a Civil Rights Activist and a Medical Professional. On March 2, 1955 Claudette was on a bus and was asked to move to the back so a white woman can sit there but she refused to move. She was arrested and became one of four plaintiffs in the land mark legal case Browder V.S. Gayle which ruled Montgomery's segregated bus system unconstitutional.

Angela Davis, born in 1944 on January 26, Birmingham, Alabama. Angela a radical activist, whose part of the U.S Communist Party. Fighting for what she believed in, Angela Davis fought against the political repression of the state and thousands of its citizens. Women have been fighting just as much as men. Women have be fighting for equal rights every since the constitution has taken place. Even though the constitution is suppose to grant all American equal rights, to any man or women for freedom and equality. It’s very clear from the bringing that the world is segregated. “ At the age of four I was aware that the people across the street were different- without yet being able to trace their alien nature to the color of their skin” (P.78)

Angela Davis was an activist for the Black Panther party and she stood for everything that she thought was right. From being bullied by the white man and now today it comes full circle. The police are no different than when they were back then. The difference between Dr. King, Malcolm X, and Angela Davis is that Angela Davis is as woman and was not a preacher but what makes them similar is they all believed in non-violence and let our voices be heard.

This detailed book is a candid look at civil rights pioneer Ida B. Wells. Bay’s book reflects on Wells’s life, beginning in Mississippi and Tennessee. It focuses on her campaign, after Wells’s was forced to give up her seat on a train in 1883, along with her phenomenal work to end lynching and racial injustice. Bay’s book elucidates a history of Wells’s childhood of slave parents to her elite social circles in England. She provides her readers with a comprehensive research of Wells’s hardships and successes. For example, Bay also researches Wells’s sacrifices by illuminating her most notable role in helping to develop the NAACP.