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Angela Davis
American Black Activist


Born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama a. U.S. black activist who gained an international reputation during her imprisonment and trial on conspiracy charges in 1970-72.
The daughter of Alabama schoolteachers, Angela Davis studies at home and abroad (1961-67) before becoming a doctoral candidate at the University of California, San Diego, under the Marxist professor Herbert Marcuse. Because of her political opinions and despite an excellent record as an instructor at the university’s Los Angeles campus, the California Board of Regents in 1970 refused to renew her appointment as lecturer in philosophy.
Championing the cause of black prisoners, Davis grew particularly attached to a young revolutionary, George Jackson, one of the so-called Soledad (Prison) Brothers. Jackson’s brother Jonathan was among the four persons killed-including the trial judge-in an abortive escape and kidnapping attempt from the Hall of Justice in Marin C...