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Angela Davis

Angela Davis

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26 Jan 1944 (82 years)
Birmingham, Alabama, USA

Biography

Angela Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. 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. Her interests include 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 Cal...

Also Known As

Angela Yvonne Davis, Анджела Ивонн Дэвис, Анджела Дэвис, Angela Y. Davis, Dr. Angela Davis

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