Angela Davis was born on January 26th 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. Angela was the daughter of an automobile mechanic and

school teacher. Davis attended segregated schools before moving to N.Y with her

mother. Angela was a activist, educator and a philosopher! Angela took a great part in the

civil rights acts she made many changes and stood up for her rights even when treated

unequally.

• After Angela completed her education, Davis began work as a assistant professor on the campus of the University of California in Los Angeles.

• During this period Davis became a member of the emerging Black Panther party.

• In 1969 she got fired from her job.• The cause given was her active membership in the

communist party, not even mentioned was her socialist philosophies or her involvement with the Black Panthers.

• In 1970 Angela became more involved in the black panthers! At this same time the black panthers were getting more national concentration not all was positive.

• This was supposedly due to the leaders which were the so called Soledad Brothers, Three men that were held in prison in California.

• An attempt to take hostages at the trial of a third party, James McClain, led to the shooting death of several people .

• Among those who died was Judge Harold Haley, who was killed while being abducted. The gun used to kill Haley was purposely registered under the name of Angela Davis.

• Two months as soon as she fled to California she was captured and put to jail.

• She was then freed from all charges.• She then stayed at Cuba

• The practices of the late Malcolm x were deeply rooted in the beliefs of the Black Panther Party.

• The Black Panthers thought about Malcolm X as a role model to them.

• He believed that both whites and blacks should have the same rights to be protected.

• The Black panthers were the protectors to anyone of there color. -On top are the original 6

members of the Black Panthers.

• Angela Yvonne Davis was born January 26, 1944, to B. Frank, a teacher and businessman, and Sally E. Davis, who was also a teacher. Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, at a time of great political times and racism in the United States.

• Angela Davis grew up to be a teacher, activists, and a philosopher.• Davis traveled to Germany in 1960, where she spent two years

studying at the Frankfurt School under acclaimed scholar Theodor Adorno.

• From 1963 to 1964, Davis attended the University of Paris. Davis then returned to the United States and attended Brandeis University, in Waltham, Massachusetts. After earning her B.A. (magna cum laude) .

• In 1968 she receives her masters degree at the University of California at San Diego . It was at the University of California at San Diego that Davis began closely studying the Communist Party. Davis became a member of the Communist Party, as well as a member of the Black Panthers.

• During this time she was a professor in philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles after teaching for only one year.

• In 1970, Davis became only the third woman in history to appear on the FBI's most wanted list. Davis was charged by the authorities with conspiracy to free George Jackson with a bloody shootout in front of a courthouse in California.

• In 1971 she was released, Davis's essays were published in a collection entitled If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance.

• In 1980, Davis ran for Vice President of the United States on the Communist Party ticket.

• She then published her in 1981 next book, Women, Race, and Class.• Then, in 1989, Davis published the first collection of her speeches,

entitled Women, Culture, and Politics. This book documents Davis's speeches from 1983 to 1987.

• Today, Angela Y. Davis is an accomplished cultural theorist. Davis is now a tenured professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz, and spends much of her time delivering speeches to eager audiences around the country.

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• http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/workers/black-panthers/

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To conclude our report on Angela Y. Davis we learned that she fought for the rights of colored people and never gave

up though she was blamed for killing people she didn’t kill. She was a

philosopher, activist and educator. We should all take this woman as an

example of what we should do for the future.