Angela Davis was born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama. She is an activist, writer, and scholar who is most widely known for her work in women’s rights and civil rights.
Davis felt the injustice of racial prejudice while growing up in Alabama. She grew up in a segregated neighborhood and went to a segregated high school. She felt this was wrong and would participate with her family in civil rights demonstrations. She would organize interracial study groups only for them to be broken up by the police.
She excelled in her studies of philosophy at Brandeis University and attended graduate school in the University of California. She became involved in radical black political groups and the Communist Party. She helped start several organizations for black women, such as Sisters Inside and Critical Resistance.
Davis then became a professor, but many people didn’t want her to teach because of her political affiliation. In 1970, she was fired from her position at UCLA. The next year she was arrested as a suspected conspirator in the Soledad Brothers case, but the charges were later dropped.
Davis continued teaching in 1972. To this day, she is a professor, writer and speaker promoting social issues including feminism, prison conditions, and LGBTQ+ rights.
Davis felt the injustice of racial prejudice while growing up in Alabama. She grew up in a segregated neighborhood and went to a segregated high school. She felt this was wrong and would participate with her family in civil rights demonstrations. She would organize interracial study groups only for them to be broken up by the police.
She excelled in her studies of philosophy at Brandeis University and attended graduate school in the University of California. She became involved in radical black political groups and the Communist Party. She helped start several organizations for black women, such as Sisters Inside and Critical Resistance.
Davis then became a professor, but many people didn’t want her to teach because of her political affiliation. In 1970, she was fired from her position at UCLA. The next year she was arrested as a suspected conspirator in the Soledad Brothers case, but the charges were later dropped.
Davis continued teaching in 1972. To this day, she is a professor, writer and speaker promoting social issues including feminism, prison conditions, and LGBTQ+ rights.
