Editing Angela Davis (section)

==Early life==
Angela Davis was born on January 26, 1944,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/individuals/angela-davis |title=Angela Davis (January 26, 1944) |website=African American Heritage |publisher=[[National Archives and Records Administration]] |access-date=January 24, 2020 |archive-date=December 25, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201225030805/https://www.archives.gov/research/african-americans/individuals/angela-davis |url-status=live }}</ref> in [[Birmingham, Alabama]]. She was christened at her father's [[Episcopal Church USA|Episcopal]] church.<ref name="Nadelson 1972 p. ">{{cite book | last=Nadelson | first=R. | title=Who is Angela Davis? : The Biography of a Revolutionary | publisher=P. H. Wyden | year=1972 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f7pAAAAAIAAJ | access-date=October 24, 2022 | page= | archive-date=October 24, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024202407/https://books.google.com/books?id=f7pAAAAAIAAJ | url-status=live }}</ref> Her family lived in the "Dynamite Hill" neighborhood, which was marked in the 1950s by the bombings of houses in an attempt to intimidate and drive out middle-class black people who had moved there. Davis occasionally spent time on her uncle's farm and with friends in [[New York City]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Angela Yvonne|title=Angela Davis: An Autobiography|date=March 1989|publisher=International Publishers|location=New York City|isbn=0-7178-0667-7|chapter=Rocks}}</ref> Her siblings include two brothers, [[Ben Davis (American football)|Ben]] and Reginald, and a sister, Fania. Ben played [[defensive back]] for the [[Cleveland Browns]] and [[Detroit Lions]] in the late 1960s and early 1970s.<ref name="Aptheker-1999">{{cite book|last1=Aptheker|first1=Bettina|author-link1=Bettina Aptheker|title=The Morning Breaks: The Trial of Angela Davis|url=https://archive.org/details/morningbreakstri00apth|url-access=registration|edition=2nd|year=1999|publisher=Cornell University Press|location=Ithaca, New York|isbn=0801485975}}</ref>

Davis attended Carrie A. Tuggle School, a segregated black elementary school, and later, Parker Annex, a middle-school branch of [[A. H. Parker High School|Parker High School]] in Birmingham. During this time, Davis's mother, Sallye Bell Davis, was a national officer and leading organizer of the [[Southern Negro Youth Congress]], an organization influenced by the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]] aimed at building alliances among African Americans in the South. Davis grew up surrounded by communist organizers and thinkers, who significantly influenced her intellectual development.<ref name="Interview-Angela Davis">{{cite journal|last=Kum-Kum Bhavnani|first=Bhavnani|author2=Davis, Angela|title=Complexity, Activism, Optimism: An Interview with Angela Y. Davis|journal=Feminist Review|date=Spring 1989|issue=31|pages=66–81|doi=10.2307/1395091|jstor=1395091}}</ref> Among them was the Southern Negro Youth Congress official [[Louis E. Burnham]], whose daughter [[Margaret Burnham]] was Davis's friend from childhood, as well as her co-counsel during Davis's 1971 trial for murder and kidnapping.<ref name=abt/>

Davis was involved in her church youth group as a child and attended Sunday school regularly. She attributes much of her political involvement to her involvement with the [[Girl Scouts of the USA|Girl Scouts of the United States of America]]. She also participated in the Girl Scouts 1959 [[Girl Scout Senior Roundup|national roundup]] in [[Colorado]]. As a Girl Scout, she marched and picketed to protest racial segregation in Birmingham.<ref>"The Radicalization of Angela Davis," ''Ebony'', July 1971: n.p., Mag.</ref>

By her junior year of high school, Davis had been accepted by an [[American Friends Service Committee]] (Quaker) program that placed black students from the South in [[Racial integration|integrated]] schools in the North. She chose [[Elisabeth Irwin High School]] in [[Greenwich Village]]. There she was recruited by a communist youth group, Advance.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bubbins|first=Harry|date=January 26, 2018|title=Angela Davis: Her Greenwich Village Connections|url=https://www.villagepreservation.org/2018/01/26/happy-birthday-angela-davis-2/|access-date=October 21, 2020|website=Village Preservation|language=en-US|archive-date=October 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201024100927/https://www.villagepreservation.org/2018/01/26/happy-birthday-angela-davis-2/|url-status=live}}</ref>