Born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama. Angela Davis is best
known as a radical African American educator and activist for civil rights and
other social issues. She knew about racial prejudice from her experiences
with discrimination growing up in Alabama. As a teenager, Davis organized
interracial study groups, which were broken up by the police. She also knew
several of the young African American girls killed in the Birmingham church
bombing of 1963. Davis, so moved by the deaths of the four girls killed in
the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in her hometown in 1963,
that she decided to join the civil rights movement. By 1967, however,
Davis was influenced by Black Power advocates and joined the Student
Nonviolent …show more content…
Poverty is a huge issue that
should be addressed but because most of the people in poverty or the low
class are African America it won’t addressed until the shoe is on the other
foot. Although poverty in the United States has increased in general as time
progressed the majority of people in poverty are still black. This has always
been an issue in the black community and has always set us back. To go
even further, some would even say that poverty within the black community
is only getting addressed because there aren’t just black people involved in
the circumstances. Sadly, the circumstances have yet to change and African
Americans are getting tired of it.
There are people dying everybody in poverty from not being able to afford
the bare necessities that they require to live healthy lives. There are even
more people dying in the winter because they do not have shelter and the
harsh weather takes a toll on their bodies. When is enough going to be
enough? How many people are going to have to die before the issue is going
to be addressed? Poverty is not something someone chooses. Most people in
poverty are born into the lifestyle. They can’t help where they come
known as a radical African American educator and activist for civil rights and
other social issues. She knew about racial prejudice from her experiences
with discrimination growing up in Alabama. As a teenager, Davis organized
interracial study groups, which were broken up by the police. She also knew
several of the young African American girls killed in the Birmingham church
bombing of 1963. Davis, so moved by the deaths of the four girls killed in
the bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in her hometown in 1963,
that she decided to join the civil rights movement. By 1967, however,
Davis was influenced by Black Power advocates and joined the Student
Nonviolent …show more content…
Poverty is a huge issue that
should be addressed but because most of the people in poverty or the low
class are African America it won’t addressed until the shoe is on the other
foot. Although poverty in the United States has increased in general as time
progressed the majority of people in poverty are still black. This has always
been an issue in the black community and has always set us back. To go
even further, some would even say that poverty within the black community
is only getting addressed because there aren’t just black people involved in
the circumstances. Sadly, the circumstances have yet to change and African
Americans are getting tired of it.
There are people dying everybody in poverty from not being able to afford
the bare necessities that they require to live healthy lives. There are even
more people dying in the winter because they do not have shelter and the
harsh weather takes a toll on their bodies. When is enough going to be
enough? How many people are going to have to die before the issue is going
to be addressed? Poverty is not something someone chooses. Most people in
poverty are born into the lifestyle. They can’t help where they come