Angela Davis

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Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis
Birthday	Wednesday, January 26, 1944
Birthplace	Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.
Occupation	Educator, author, activist

Davis, Angela

Born Jan. 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Ala. Participant in the antiwar and civil rights movements in the USA. Member of the Communist Party of the USA.

Davis received her higher education at Brandeis University in Waltham, Mass., but she also studied at the Sorbonne (France) and the University of Frankfurt am Main (Federal Republic of Germany). In 1968 she was granted a master’s degree. She began teaching philosophy in 1969 at the University of California at Los Angeles, but she was dismissed because she was a member of the Communist Party. Because of her progressive views, Davis was arrested in October 1970 on the fabricated charge that she was an accomplice in a murder. Her trial aroused a broad movement in her defense in the USA and in foreign countries, including the USSR.

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Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself; a new critical edition by Angela Y.

Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave, written by himself; a new critical edition by Angela Y. Davis featuring her 'Lectures on liberation". (reprint, 1969)

WORCESTER - Taking the stage at the Sullivan Auditorium of Worcester State College Wednesday night in front of a sizeable audience, radical activist and professor Angela Y.