The Strength to Stand Firm: The Life and Activism of Civil Rights Heroine Angela Davis

Abstract

The great Angela Davis was a hard-charging civil rights activist, who wasn’t afraid of speaking her mind and protesting for the freedom and human rights of Black Americans in the United States. Indeed, Davis can be considered a modern hero of the first order. In this respect, she contributed to the 1964 civil rights legislation that was put in place by a Democratic President, Lyndon B. Johnson, who was a former, white segregationist from Texas.

This paper presents Davis’s life and works in a nutshell, as she fought, and continues to fight, the good fight against white supremacy. And inexorably, she has positively affected our society — at large — through every societal and political sectors. Davis was also able to use her charismatic charm to achieve her political and activist goals. In the final analysis, Angela Davis became one of the most important political and contemporary activist in modern American history.