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Davis was born in
Birmingham, Alabama; she studied at
Brandeis University and the
University of Frankfurt, where she became increasingly engaged in far-left politics. She also studied at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to East Germany, where she completed a doctorate at the University of Berlin. After returning to the United States, she joined the CPUSA and became involved in the
second-wave feminist movement and the
campaign against the Vietnam War. In 1969, she was hired as an assistant professor of philosophy at the
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). UCLA's governing
Board of Regents soon fired her due to her membership in the CPUSA. After a court ruled the firing illegal, the university fired her for the use of inflammatory language.
In 1970, guns belonging to Davis were used in an armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, California, in which four people were killed. Prosecuted for three capital felonies—including conspiracy to murder—she was held in jail for over a year before being acquitted of all charges in 1972.
During the 1980s, Davis was twice the Communist Party's candidate for vice president. In 1997, she co-founded
Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the
prison–industrial complex. In 1991, amid the
dissolution of the Soviet Union, she broke away from the CPUSA to help establish the CCDS.
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Angela Yvonne Davis is a prominent political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as the leader of the Communist Party USA in the 1960s and had close ties to the Black Panther Party. She has advocated for the abolishment of prisons and the prison-industrial complex. She is currently Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she taught in the History of Consciousness Department and is the former director of the Feminist Studies Department.
Angela Yvonne Davis is a prominent political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as the leader of Communist Party USA in the 1960s and had close ties to the Black Panther Party. She has advocated for the abolishment of prisons and the prison-industrial complex. She is currently...
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