Angela Davis An Autobiography by Angela Davis is Angela Davis telling her own story. She was a radical of the 1960s and 1970s era and a part of the Black Liberation movement. She was also a member of the Communist Party. She fought for what she believed in, despite the fact of her incarceration and trial from 1970 to 1972. Angela Davis fought against the political repression of the state and thousands of its citizens. She was still a member of the Communist Party in 1988.