Angela+Davis

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Born: 26-Jan-1944 Birthplace: Birmingham, AL

Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: Black Sexual orientation: Lesbian Occupation: Activist

Nationality: United States Executive summary: Black Panther, teacher, professor

Radical activist, teacher, member of the Black Panthers and formerly active in the American Communist Party. Now a professor at UC Santa Cruz, and a lecturer on prison reform.

Father: B. Frank Davis (teacher) Mother: Sallye Davis (teacher) Sister: Fania Jordan

High School: Elisabeth Irwin High School, New York City, NY University: Brandeis University University: University of California at San Diego Professor: UCLA (1969-70) Professor: University of California at Santa Cruz Professor: SUNY Stony Brook Teacher: San Francisco Art Institute - she studied philosophy

times of when she went to prison: Black Panther Party Communist Party USA Lenin Peace Prize 1979 FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives 1970 Murder 7-Aug-1970, acquitted 4-Jun-1972 Kidnapping 7-Aug-1970, acquitted 4-Jun-1972 Conspiracy 7-Aug-1970, acquitted 4-Jun-1972

Angela Davis, radical black activist and philosopher, was arrested as a suspected conspirator in the attempt to free George Jackson( a communist and a member of the Black panther party ) from a courtroom in Marin County, California, August 7, 1970. The guns used were registered in her name. Angela Davis was eventually acquitted of all charges, but was briefly on the FBI's most-wanted list as she fled from arrest.

Angela Davis is often associated with the Black Panthers and with the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. She joined the Communist Party when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. She was active with SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) before the Black Panthers. Angela Davis ran for U.S. Vice President on the Communist Party ticket in 1980.

Angela Davis has been an activist and writer promoting women's rights and racial justice while pursuing her career as a philosopher and teacher at the University of Santa Cruz and San Francisco University -- she achieved tenure at the University of California at Santa Cruz though former governer Ronald Reagan, who swore she would never teach again in the University of California system. She studied with political philosopher Herbert Marcuse. She has published on race, class, and gender.