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14 Vintage Photos Of Angela Davis, Firebrand Activist And Feminist Powerhouse

“This moment holds possibilities for change we have never before experienced in this country,” activist and academic Angela Davis has said of the global protests sparked by the murder of George Floyd on 25 May. And Davis should know, she’s been fighting for the rights of the black community in the US for decades.

Angela Davis speaking at the Women’s March in 2017 in Washington D.C

Theo Wargo

Davis, who grew up in segregated Alabama, was part of the Black Panthers and the Communist Party. The world at large learned of her and her work in 1970, when she became the world’s most famous “political prisoner” after being charged by the state of California with crimes connected to an armed takeover of a courthouse. Her friend Jonathan Jackson, to whom Davis was accused of supplying weapons, as well as two inmates and a judge lost their lives in the incident in Marin County. Davis, knowing it was a set up, fled California. Two months later, the then President Richard Nixon told the world the FBI had capture

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Angela Davis lives. Even if she were dead, she would be so much more than alive simply through her intellectual deed, legacy, and actions. To me, she’s always seemed like this cool, breezy, and intellectual person, but I didn’t get into her until about ten years ago, after seeing a documentary about The Black Panthers¹.

I love the myth-making at the start of this book:

In a turnpike motel on the outskirts of Detroit, I turned on the television to watch the news. “Today, Angela Davis, wanted on charges of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy in connection with the Marin County Courthouse shootout, was seen leaving the home of her parents in Birmingham, Alabama. She is known to have attended a meeting of the local branch of the Black Panther Party. When Birmingham authorities finally caught up with her, she managed to outrun them, driving her 1959 blue Rambler. . . .”

This is very much curtailed by Davis’s view of reality: this book is edited by none other than Toni Morrison. It does actually breathe life throughout, which would probably have happened even if Morrison wouldn’

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Angela Davis

American academic and political activist (born 1944)

For other people named Angela Davis, see Angela Davis (disambiguation).

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.^[3] Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She was active in movements such as the Occupy movement and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.

Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama; she studied at Brandeis University and the University of Frankfurt, where she became increasingly engaged in far-left politics. She also studied at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to East Germany, where she completed some studies for a doctorate at the University of Berlin. After returning to the United States, she joined the CPUSA and beca