Angela Davis

About Angela Davis

African-American civil rights activist, novelist, and lecturer who had Communist inclinations and was active in the Civil Rights Movement.

Angela Yvonne Davis is an American political activist, philosopher, scholar and author. She is a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. In terms of Marxist ideology, Davis is a longtime member of the American Communist Party and a founding member of the Correspondence Committee on Democracy and Socialism. She is the author of over ten books on class, feminism, race, and the United States prison system. Born into an African-American family in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis studied French at Brandeis University and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt in West Germany. A student under the direction of the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, a prominent figure of the Frankfurt School, Davis became increasingly involved in leftist politics. Returning to the United States, she studied at the University of California at San Diego, before moving to East Germany, where she completed her doctorate at Berlin Humboldt University.

Occupation	Activist, scholar
Political party	Communist Party USA (1969–1991), Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (since 1991)
Born	Angela Yvonne Davis, January 26, 1944, Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.

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Trivia

She founded Critical Resistance, a prison reform organization established with the goal of abolishing the prison-industrial complex.

Angela Davis before fame

Her mother was a key organizer for the Southern Negro Congress, a largely Communist-influenced organization.

Achievement of Angela Davis

She launched Critical Resistance, a prison reform movement dedicated to ending the prison-industrial complex.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

$800 Thousand

Angela Davis family life

Her father was a service station owner and her mother was a schoolteacher in Birmingham, Alabama. Hilton Braithwaite was her husband from 1980 to 1983.

Associations of Angela Davis

President Ronald Reagan sought to bar her from teaching at California institutions because of her ties to the Communist Party.

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