![]() It is meant to strengthen the next generation of prisoners, as the books left by her predecessors strengthened her.Īutobiography as an act of political communication ![]() Her own book is destined for the same shelves. These, she eventually realized, were the remnants of the imprisonment of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn and Claudia Jones, Communists like herself, imprisoned in the same jail under the Smith Act and also made to leave behind the books they received as inmates. DuBois, a book on China by Edgar Snow, a work on communism. ![]() ![]() When Angela Davis finally obtained access to the library in the Women's House of Detention during the long incarceration that preceded her trial, she found among the cockroaches and the literary trash a handful of books that had some meaning for her-the autobiography of W. ![]()
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