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	Angela Yvonne Davis
		After finishing her masters in California, Davis began teaching philosophy at the U of C at LA. She was being monitored for her association with the communist party and her association with the Black Panthers.
		Davis was imprisoned for over a year for her supposed involvement in the incident at the Marin County courthouse.
		Davis was denied the seat of President of U of C at Santa Cruz in 1994 due to her political beliefs and history.
	www.unm.edu /~erbaugh/Wmst200spr03/bios/Davis.htm (890 words)

	Angela Davis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Angela Davis was born in 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, in the midst of Jim Crow laws.
		There Angela was exposed to study of socialism and communism and recruited to the Communist youth group, Advance, where she became acquainted with children of the leaders of the Communist Party including her lifelong friend, Bettina Aptheker.
		Davis worked as a philosophy lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles, during the 1960s, during which time she also was a radical feminist and activist, a member of the Communist Party USA and associated with the Black Panther Party.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Angela_Davis (2223 words)

	Red Biographies: Angela Davis
		Davis was born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama.
		Her mother, Sallye E. Davis, had been politically active since her college days, and Angela participated in demonstrations with her mother from the time she was in elementary school.
		Davis joined the Communist Party in 1968 and suffered discrimination like many fls during the late 1960s for her personal political beliefs and commitment to revolutionary ideals.
	reds.linefeed.org /bios/davis.html (626 words)

	Free Essay Angela Yvonne Davis - A True Civil Rights Activist
		Davis was charged by the authorities with conspiracy to free George Jackson with a bloody shootout in front of a courthouse in California.
		Today, Angela Y. Davis continues to be a strong force for political and social activism, as well as the reformation of the "prison industrial complex." She is also 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.
	www.echeat.com /essay.php?t=27212 (830 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Davis, Angela Yvonne
		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 charged by the authorities with conspiracy to free George Jackson with a bloody shootout in front of a courthouse in California.
		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.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/davis_angela_yvonne.html (1178 words)

	disinformation \| angela davis
		Davis joined the Communist Party in 1968 and suffered discrimination like many fls during the late 1960s for her personal political beliefs and commitment to revolutionary ideals.
		Ultimately Davis represents a revitalising force in New Left politics (she was at the forefront of Gulf War protests in the United States that were censored by the mainstream media) and individual life-affirming cultural studies (particularly blues and hip-hop music).
		Text of a June 25, 1998,speech by Angela Davis on Affirmative Action that also conveys her contemporary interpretation of the 1960s activist legacy: "I also need to point out that we are not in the '60s anymore.
	www.disinfo.com /archive/pages/dossier/id91/pg1 (1444 words)

	Social Movement Leader Bio
		July, 1968 Angela became a full-fledged member of the Communist Party, U.S.A. 1969 Because of her political opinions and despite an excellent record as an instructor at UCLA, the California Board of Regents refused to renew her appointment as lecturer in philosophy.
		Davis hit the headlines after she was accused of planning and alleged kidnapping of three San Quentin prisoners and supplying the gun that killed four people during the incident.
		October, 1970 Davis was arrested in New York City and was returned to California to face the charges against her.
	www1.appstate.edu /~clarkne/socm/bios/davis.htm (1254 words)

	Be Aware - Angela Davis
		The FBI said that Angela armed prisoners in the Marin County courthouse with guns that were registered in her name, as the guns used by Jonathan were hers.
		Angela was finally found in a Greenwich Village hotel and was formally charged with murder and kidnapping even though she never took part in the shootout in Marin County.
		Angela started writing on her release from prison and in 1971, her first essays were published in a collection called 'If They Come In The Morning: Voices of Resistance'.
	www.daintycrew.com /davis.htm (655 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Davis, Angela Yvonne (Site not responding. Last check: )
		DAVIS, ANGELA YVONNE [Davis, Angela Yvonne] 1944-, African-American political activist, b.
		She taught philosophy (1969-70) at the Univ. of California, Los Angeles, until she was finally denied reappointment because of her membership in the Communist party and her advocacy of radical fl causes.
		Davis was the American Communist party's vice-presidential candidate in 1980 and 1984.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/d/davisa1y1.asp (216 words)

	ANGELA DAVIS BIOGRAPHY
		Angela Yvonne Davis was born in the Birmingham, Alabama, on January 26, 1944.
		Angela Davis traveled to Germany in 1960, where she spent two years studying at the Frankfurt School under the tutelage, of the acclaimed teacher Theodor Adorno.
		Angela was taken to the New York Women’s House of Detention were she spent several months before being extradited back to Marin County in California, then eventually to a jail in San Jose, California.
	www.jayepurplewolf.com /PASSION/ANGELADAVIS (2707 words)

	Angela Y. Davis (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama at a time of great political unrest and racism in the United States.
		Angela was a very good student and well educated, so she took the chance to go to California and teach at the Philosophy Department at UCLA.
		Angela Davis was a huge political activist, and after she got out of jail she taught Black philosophy and women's studies at SF State College.
	sun.menloschool.org /~nfortman/8th/decadesweb.2003/olgaf (474 words)

	SOCIAL ACTIVIST, WOMEN'S RIGHT PROMOTER ANGELA DAVIS TO SPEAK MARCH 1 IN THE PRICE CENTER BALLROOM AT UCSD (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Davis gained national attention in 1969 when she was fired from her teaching position in the Philosophy Department at UCLA because of her social activism and membership in the Communist Party.
		Angela Yvonne Davis was born Jan. 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama.
		Davis did graduate work at the Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University in Frankfort, Germany, and at UCSD where she studied with professor Herbert Marcuse, author of One Dimensional Man (1964), and was influenced especially by his idea that it is the duty of the individual to rebel against the system.
	ucsdnews.ucsd.edu /newsrel/events/angeladavis.asp (926 words)

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		Professor Angela Y. Davis is known internationally for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the U.S. and abroad.
		She was incarcerated on charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy, and was the subject of an intense police search that drove her underground and which culminated in one of the most famous trials in recent history.
		Tom: "Today's top story: Twenty six year old Angela Davis, the once political philosopher at UCLA who was fired because of her affiliation with the Communist Party USA, was linked to the Marin County Courthouse shootout earlier this week.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/ssmith/davisbio.html (580 words)

	WWAD: Angela Davis
		Angela Yvonne Davis was born in 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama to schoolteachers B. Frank and Sally E. Davis.
		Angela grew up under the auspices that if you work hard enough you will be rewarded and therefore will rise above the obstacles that faced fls in their everyday lives.
		Angela Davis still today is active in the fl Liberation Movement only now her controversial behavior has lessened.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/389/noframes/mcginley.html (815 words)

	Angela Davis Biography
		Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is a radical activist, primarily working for racial and gender equality and for prison reform.
		Born in Birmingham, Alabama, and a 1965 graduate of Brandeis University, Davis worked as a philosophy lecturer at the UCLA during the 1960s, during which time she also was a radical feminist and activist, a member of both the Communist Party USA and the Black Panther Party.
		In 1970 Davis became the third woman on the FBI's Most Wanted List when she was charged with conspiracy, kidnapping, and homicide, due to her alleged participation in an escape attempt from Marin County Hall of Justice.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Davis_Angela.html (370 words)

	This Day in History
		Angela Yvonne Davis, a fl militant, former philosophy professor at the University of California, and self-proclaimed communist, is acquitted on charges of conspiracy, murder, and kidnapping by an all-white jury in San Jose, California.
		In October 1970, Davis was arrested in New York City in connection with a shootout that occurred on August 7 in a San Raphael, California, courtroom.
		Davis, who had championed the cause of fl prisoners and was friends with George Jackson, was indicted in the crime but went into hiding.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=general&month=10272958&day=10272969 (719 words)

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		In 1970 Davis was implicated by more than 20 witnesses in a plot to free her imprisoned lover, fellow Black Panther and prison thug George Jackson, by hijacking a Marin County, California courtroom and taking the judge, the prosecuting assistant district attorney, and two jurors hostage.
		At her 1972 trial, Davis presented her version of where she had been and what she had been doing at the time of the shootout; because she was acting as her own attorney, she could not be cross-examined.
		Davis' case was further aided by the pliant nature of the jury, which acquitted her.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1303 (1409 words)

	Vue Weekly : Articles
		But Angela Yvonne Davis, former fugitive, former member of the Communist Party, former potential denizen of death row, and very current human rights activist, is far more than a copywriter’s cute coiffure cliché.
		Rosamond Robertson and Cynthia Wesley, whom Davis described as being like sisters to her, were among four African American girls butchered by White extremists in the Birmingham church bombing.
		Davis was linked romantically to George Jackson, a Gramsciian organic intellectual, author of Soledad Brother, hard-time prisoner and “Field Marshall” for the BPP.
	www.vueweekly.com /articles/default.aspx?i=3581 (944 words)

	[PRISONACT] Angela Davis fights on
		Angela Davis fights on http://www.spokesman-recorder.com/News/Article/Article.asp?NewsID=48721andsID=13 By: Nneka Onyilofor Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder Originally posted 9/29/2004 Her current target is soaring incarceration rates Most of us can remember her round afro and fist in the air during the 1960s.
		Davis, who has been fighting with words for over 40 years, proved that evening that there are many things worth fighting for nonviolently, such as a better education system.
		Davis also stressed that it is more important to invest in education than in prisons, because investing in prisons can lead to educational funding cuts.
	www.prisonactivist.org /pipermail/prisonact-list/2004-October/009417.html (592 words)

	Angela Yvonne Davis — FactMonster.com
		She taught philosophy (1969–70) at the Univ. of California, Los Angeles, until she was finally denied reappointment because of her membership in the Communist party and her advocacy of radical fl causes.
		Davis was the American Communist party's vice-presidential candidate in 1980 and 1984.
		Angela Davis - Angela Davis political activist, author Born: 1/26/1944 Birthplace: Birmingham, Ala.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0814783.html (165 words)

	Black History Month: Short Profile of Angela Yvonne Davis
		Angela Davis - a professor at 24 - was teaching at the University of California and speaking out as an advocate for fl prisoners.
		She was fired from her job at the University in 1969 at the request of the then Governor of California, Ronald Reagan and despite her winning a court action, her employers refused to renew her contract.
		She was captured, imprisoned and became the subject of an embarrassing international ‘Free Angela Davis’ campaign led by students and academics.
	www.black-history-month.co.uk /articles/angeladavisprofile.html (492 words)

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		Davis was suspected of being an accomplice to the endeavor and was later charged with kidnapping, murder, and conspiracy.
		However, due to the resounding "Free Angela" campaign for her release and a second trial, Davis was acquitted in 1972 after spending sixteen months in prison.
		Davis approaches the lives of these American musical legends from a feminist perspective to give an enlightening view of the impact that fl working-class blues singers had on shaping African-American feminism.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Davis.html (821 words)

	Angela Davis: biography & bibliography, 1988
		1944: Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on January 26 as the first child.
		1969: In the Spring Davis was hired by the Philosophy Department of UCLA as an assistant professor, fired illegally by the Regents in September because of her membership in the Communist Party, and finally rehired due to the pressure from her colleagues, students and the critical public.
		She was accused of having bought the guns for the shootout and therefore charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy in the events of August 7.
	www.marcuse.org /herbert/scholaractivists/AngDavisBioBib88.htm (565 words)

	Grioo.com : Angela Yvonne Davis
		Angela Davis passe deux mois à fuir et se cacher, sa notoriété se forge et s’accroît durant cette période comme l’atteste sur de nombreuses maisons une pancarte : « Angela notre sur, tu es la bienvenue dans cette maison ».
		Angela Davis s’est effectivement engagée dans la lutte pour les droits des gays, comme elle l’a fait pour toutes les minorités.
		Angela Davis nous appelle tous à être conscients de notre propre pouvoir, et à prendre notre destin en mains.
	www.grioo.com /info5329.html (1658 words)

	Amazon.de: Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday: English ... (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Angela Y. Davis's study emphasizes the impact that these singers, and later Billie Holiday, had on the poor and working-class communities from which they came.
		Professor Davis is writing aesthetically on Black female Jazz/Blues-Voices, whom are not in tradition and context of the church coined and influenced Black music and tradition.
		Angela Davis possesses the sharp gaze of the philosopher which is jumping cultural analytically over the some dito too narrow horizons of her teachers like Marcuse, Horkheimer, Adorno.
	www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0679771263 (1254 words)

	Logos free books - Logos Translations multilingual library (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The daughter of Alabama schoolteachers, Angela Davis studied at home and abroad (1961-67) before becoming a doctoral candidate at the University of California, San Diego, under the Marxist professor Herbert Marcuse.
		Suspected of complicity, Davis was sought for arrest and became one of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's "most wanted criminals." Arrested in New York City in October 1970, she was returned to California to face charges of kidnapping, murder, and conspiracy; she was acquitted of all charges by an all-white jury.
		Angela Davis: An Autobiography was published in 1974 (reprinted 1988).
	www.logoslibrary.eu /pls/wordtc/new_wordtheque.w6_home_author.home?code_author=14261&lang=EN (270 words)

	Biographies Custom Essay samples, Free samples: college essays, admission, argumentive essays - Essay Empire
		Although Angela Y. Davis was once labeled a dangerous, hardened criminal, she describes herself as a Black woman who is a Communist, a woman who has dedicated her "life to the struggle for the life of Black people," the struggle against racism and sexism.
		In her speeches, Davis identifies and examines the myriad interconnections between past and present; she explores the connections between racism and sexism, economic oppression and violence, and the impending nuclear annihilation brought about by the government's domestic and foreign policies.
		Sir Humphry Davy, in addition to discovering the principle of the electric arc, had also noted the ability of electricity to produce incandescence, and during the sixties and seventies scientists theorized that electric lamps might be produced which utilized this principle.
	www.essayempire.com /customessay/biographies (1554 words)

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