- Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author
Born: | 26 January 1944 Comment | How old is Angela Davis in 2024? / Age: | 80 years
| Where was Angela Davis born? | Birmingham, Alabama, US | Zodiac sign: | Aquarius |
Angela Davis Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| How much is Angela Davis worth? | Under review
| Nationality: | American |
Who is Angela Davis? / Facts
- She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement
- Interests - prisoner rights; she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex
- She was a professor (now retired) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department
- Davis was prosecuted for conspiracy involving the 1970 armed take-over of a Marin County, California, courtroom, in which four persons were killed
- She was acquitted in a federal trial
- 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 to Ronald 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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