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...Angela Davis came of age knowing something of this loss. The daughter of a schoolteacher and a successful service station owner, she grew up in comfortable circumstances, enjoying the opportunities and encouragement many black children are denied. At age two, her schoolteacher another started her on piano lessons, and four years later, her parents rewarded the diligence with which she had practised by giving her a Wurlitner console. "She was so serious-minded," her mother recalls. "It was our feeling that if we kept her directed in the right channels, we would have nothing to worry about...
Growing up black in the South in the '50s, Angela was aware of and involved in the civil rights movement. "When I was 12," she says, "I helped organize interracial study groups...but they were busted up by the police." As a teen-ager she worked for SNCC in the voter registration campaigns and on the picket lines during the long struggle in Birmingham...
...many ways, Angela Davis's "homecoming" at the SCLC convention is testimony to the conference's enduring strength, for as Angela herself said, she would not have won her freedom without the help of SCLC. But, equally important is the fact that had it not been for SCLC. Angela Davis might not have undergone the political development that led her to the point where she needed defending...
...DYNAMITE HILL" is what they call the part of Birmingham, Alabama, where Angela Davis grew up. They call it that because, during the long battle of Birmingham in the early '60s. Bull Conner's boys used to take their recreation blowing off firebombs under the homes of the prosperous and uppity blacks who live there. It was the people of Dynamite Hill who were the local black leaders in the struggle in Birmingham, and it was also they who lost the most...
...child, Angela Davis attended church and Sunday school at the name Baptist church on 16th Street that was later devastated in the infamous firebombing in 1963 that took the lives of four little black girls. In fact, she had known some of the dead girls well. Looking back on the bombing and her own early participation in the movement, she said recently. "I would say my current political involvement items from my experience in the South." It was there that she learned how radical the final solution would have...