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By: Myia Johnson

Angela Yvonne

Davis

About

American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author.

Background

Background

  • Born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama

  • Apart of the Communist party and the Black Panther Party as a strong leader.

Impact

On

Society

Impact On Society

Her Impact Now

Early Years

On January 20, 2020, Davis gave the Memorial Keynote Address at the University of Michigan’s MLK Symposium. She also wrote 16 books.

Davis was involved in her church youth group as a child, and attended Sunday school regularly. She attributes much of her political involvement to her involvement with the Girl Scouts of the United States of America. She also participated in the Girl Scouts 1959 national roundup in Colorado. As a Girl Scout, she marched and picketed to protest racial segregation in Birmingham.

Every single feminine of racism in this country, until we, until we, attend the war in Vietnam and the neo-colonialism. In Africa we are not gonna stop fighting until every political prisoner is free and all the monsters and dungeons in this country are mere memories of a nightmare. Sisters and brothers this is what the power of the people is all about.

Black Panthers

Angela later moved north and went to Brandeis University in Massachusetts where she studied philosophy with Herbert Marcuse. As a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, in the late 1960s, she was associated with several groups including the Black Panthers. But she spent most of her time working with the Che-Lumumba Club, which was an all-black branch of the Communist Party.

Who/What was the Black Panthers?

BP

The Black Panther Party, originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was a revolutionary political organization founded by Bobby Seale and Huey Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California.

Interesting Fact

  • Angela Yvonne Davis was one of

Alabama's Top 10 Wanted Fugitives.

  • She was fired from her job, as an assistant philosophy professor at UCLA when a gun she'd bought were used in the armed escape of three murder defendants from a Marin County, California

Quotes

QUOTES

“Radical simply means "grasping things at the root.”

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.”

“The idea of freedom is inspiring. But what does it mean? If you are free in a political sense but have no food, what's that? The freedom to starve?”

“It is in collectivity that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.”

Where Is She Now?

Her Page

Resources

*https://www.facebook.com/AngelaDavis26/

*https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/5863103.Angela_Y_Davis

*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis

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