ANGELA DAVIS
Angela Davis, radical black activist and philosopher, was arrested as a
suspected conspirator in the abortive attempt to free George Jackson 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 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 .
Angela Davis, radical black activist and philosopher, was arrested as a
suspected conspirator in the abortive attempt to free George Jackson 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 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 .