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Angela Davis

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             As Angela gets older and attends high school in New York City she notices many differences between every day life in the south compared to that of the north. When riding the public transit system Davis was surprised that white people would enter the car and take seats which had been "for colored" people in the southern states (105). In addition to this, these same white people seemed to be committed to fighting for racial equality. Davis is stimulated and finds herself gazing with longing and apprehension for the future-a future glowing with challenge, but also harboring the possibility of defeat (106). From these evident cultural differences Davis gained the inspiration needed for her future passion as an activist. Davis takes this inspiration later in the text and makes use of it in the organization of several protest and demonstrations.
             While attending Elizabeth Irwin High School in New York Davis joined a communist youth group. Shortly after joining Davis read the Communist Manifesto, which she stated hit her like a "bolt of lightning" (109). She read it eagerly, and began to see the problems of black people within the context of a large working-class movement. Her ideas about black liberation were inexact, and she could not find the right concepts to articulate them; still, she was acquiring some understanding about how capitalism could be abolished. She continues, explaining the connection between communism and minority liberation, by saying that what struck her so emphatically was the idea that once the emancipation of the proletariat became a reality, the foundation was laid for the emancipation of all oppressed groups in society (111). Davis" future attraction to the communist party is a direct result of her enrollment in the communist youth group at Elizabeth Erwin. .
             Following Davis" graduation from Elizabeth Erwin she found herself studying in Europe. While in France she becomes acquainted with Herbert Marcuse, a prominent political figure.


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