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Angela Y. Davis

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Born: January 25 1944

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Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a nationally prominent 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 despite never being an official member of the party. Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She is a retired professor with the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.

Her research interests are in 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 tried and acquitted of suspected involvement in the Soledad brothers' August 1970 abduction and murder of Judge Harold Haley in Marin County, California. She was twice a candidate for Vice President on the Communist Party USA ticket during the 1980s.

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Angela Y. Davis

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Books from Angela Y. Davis

Assata: An Autobiography

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir

Women, Race & Class

Are Prisons Obsolete?

Freedom is a constant struggle

An Autobiography

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday

Women, Culture, and Politics

Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire

If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance

To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism

The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues

Abolition. Feminism. Now.

Racismo no movimento sufragista feminino

Angela Davis: Autobiografía

117 Days: An Account of Confinement and Interrogation Under the South African 90-Day Detention Law

De Colores Means All of Us: Latina Views for a Multi-Colored Century

How Europe Underdeveloped Africa

Jailhouse Lawyers: Prisoners Defending Prisoners v. the USA