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Symbol of the Power Fist Angela Davis

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Angela Davis

Davis in 2010

BornAngela Yvonne Davis
January 26, 1944 (age 72)
Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.Alma mater

Brandeis University, BAUniversity of California, San Diego, MAHumboldt University, PhD

OccupationEducator, author, social activistEmployerUniversity of California, Santa Cruz(retired)Political partyCommunist Party USA (1969–91),Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (1991–currently)Spouse(s)Hilton Braithwaite (1980–198?)

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of theCommunist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests include prisoner rights; she founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at theUniversity of California, Santa Cruz, and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

Davis was arrested, charged, tried, and acquitted of conspiracy in the 1970 armed take-over of a Marin County courtroom, in which four persons died.

Her research interests are feminism,African-American studies, critical theory,Marxism, popular music, social consciousness, and the philosophy and history of punishment and prisons. Her membership in the Communist Party led toRonald Reagan's request in 1969 to have her barred from teaching at any university in the State of California. She was twice a candidate for Vice President on the Communist Party USA ticket during the 1980s.

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Early lifeEducationBrandeis UniversityUniversity of FrankfurtPostgraduate workProfessor at University of California, Los Angeles, 1969–70Arrest and trialOther responses to her arrestOther activities in the 1970sCubaRussiaJonestown and People's TempleLater teaching career
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