Angela Y. Davis

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author; she is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 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 writes extensively on class, gender, race, and the U.S. prison system.

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

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Family

• Parents: Benjamin Frank Davis, I and Sallye Marguerite Bell
• Siblings: two brothers, Ben and Reginald, and a sister, Fania. Ben played defensive back for the Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
• Spouse Hilton Braithwaite ​(m. 1980; div. 1983)​
• Partner Gina Dent

In a 2023 episode of the PBS series Finding Your Roots, < link Henry Louis Gates revealed to Angela Y. Davis that she is a descendant of William Brewster, a passenger on the Mayflower.[131] (relationship path)

Notability

In 1970, guns belonging to Davis were used in an armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, California, in which four people were killed.

On August 18, 1970, FBI director J. Edgar Hoover listed Angela Davis on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List.

Prosecuted for three capital felonies—including conspiracy to murder—she was held in jail for over a year before being acquitted of all charges in 1972.

The Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund - < link > This flyer advertises a celebratory evening with Angela Davis. The flyer is white with black text and features an illustration of Angela Davis on the top right.

The flyer reads [THE ANGELA DAVIS LEGAL DEFENSE FUND / Presents / A VICTORY / CELEBRATION / THURSDAY-JUNE 29- 7:30 P.M. / An Evening / with / Angela Davis]. Additional information about the event, ticket pricing, and where to buy tickets is printed underneath the illustration and text. The back of the flyer is blank except for two handwritten notes. On top, in graphite text, handwriting reads [M30669-1]. The date, [JULY 1972] is handwritten in blue in the bottom corner.

During the 1980s, Davis was twice the Communist Party's candidate for vice president; at the time, she also held the position of professor of ethnic studies at San Francisco State University.

In 1991, amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union, she broke away from the CPUSA to help establish the CCDS. That same year, she joined the feminist studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she became department director before retiring in 2008. In 1997, she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison–industrial complex.

Since retirement from academia she has continued to write and remained active in movements such as Occupy and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.

Angela Davis at Oregon State University (2019). CC BY-SA 2.0

References

• Angella Yvonne Davis in the Alabama, U.S., Episcopal Diocese of Alabama Church Records, 1837-1970 < AncestryImage >
• Angela Davis in the 1950 United States Federal Census < AncestrySharing >
• Record Searchlight, Redding, California, 07 Jul 1980, Mon • Page 12. < newspapers.com >
• Angela Y Davis in the California, U.S., Divorce Index, 1966-1984 < AncestrySharing > Name Angela Y Davis Spouse Name Hilton L Location Alameda Date 28 Mar 1983.
• The Work of a Revolutionary: A Psychobiography and Careerography of Angela Y. Davis. Eur J Psychol. 2021 Aug; 17(3): 198–209. Published online 2021 Aug 31. doi: 10.5964/ejop.5507 < link >
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis cites
  • 1. "Angela Davis, Sweetheart of the Far Left, Finds Her Mr. Right". People. July 21, 1980. Archived from the original on March 11, 2015. Retrieved October 20, 2011.
  • 2. "Angela Davis Now". Los Angeles Times. March 8, 1989. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
  • 3. "Davis, Angela". National Women's Hall of Fame.
  • 4. "The Real Stain on Angela Davis' Legacy Is Her Support for Tyranny". The Bulwark. January 23, 2019.
  • 5. Kendi, Ibram X. "100 Women of the Year". Time. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  • 6. "Angela Davis: The 100 Most Influential People of 2020". Time. Retrieved September 23, 2020.
  • 7. "Angela Davis (January 26, 1944)". African American Heritage. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
  • 8.Nadelson, R. (1972). Who is Angela Davis?: The Biography of a Revolutionary. P. H. Wyden. Retrieved October 24, 2022.
  • 9. Davis, Angela Yvonne (March 1989). "Rocks". Angela Davis: An Autobiography. New York City: International Publishers. ISBN 0-7178-0667-7.
  • 13. "The Radicalization of Angela Davis," Ebony, July 1971: n.p., Mag.
  • 14. Bubbins, Harry (January 26, 2018). "Angela Davis: Her Greenwich Village Connections". Village Preservation. Retrieved October 21, 2020.
  • 15. Barbarella Fokos (August 23, 2007). "The Bourgeois Marxist". sandiegoreader.com. Retrieved October 21, 2010.
  • 16. Davis, Angela Yvonne (March 1989). "Waters". Angela Davis: An Autobiography. New York City: International Publishers. ISBN 0-7178-0667-7.
  • 17. Davis, Angela Yvonne (March 1989). "Flames". Angela Davis: An Autobiography. New York City: International Publishers. ISBN 0-7178-0667-7.
  • 131. Gates, Henry Louis. "Finding Your Roots". PBS. Retrieved April 5, 2023. https://www.pbs.org/weta/finding-your-roots
• Primary sources
  • Donald Kalish papers, Box 4 and Box 7. UCLA Library Special Collections.
• External links
  • Angela Davis at AllMovie
  • "Davis quotations". Black History Daily.
  • Appearances on C-SPAN
  • Angela Davis at IMDb
  • "Angela Davis Biography, The Civil Rights Struggle, African American GIs, and Germany". aacvr-germany.org. Archived from the original on May 3, 2011. Retrieved January 24, 2011.
  • "Angela Davis". Encyclopedia of Alabama. Archived from the original on March 13, 2014. Retrieved March 4, 2009.
  • "Angela Davis Ephemera Collection, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library". University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama.
  • "Film clip, Davis speaking at Florida A&M University's Black History Month convocation". Florida Memory. 1979.
  • The New York Times archive of Davis-related articles, nytimes.com;
  • Angela Y. Davis Papers, 1937–2017 MC 940. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
  • Angela Y. Davis Collection of the Schlesinger Library A/D260. Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
  • "Coalition Building Among People of Color" A discussion with Angela Y. Davis and Elizabeth Martínez (1993)
  • “For Angela Davis and Gina Dent, Abolition Is the Only Way.” The activists detail how their latest book, Abolition. Feminism. Now. came to be. By Hanna Phifer. < HarpersBazaar.com > (JAN 14, 2022)