A scholar, activist, and philosopher, Angela Davis (born 1944) is a powerful and influential, but also often criticized public figure. She has had a place in many notable groups of people, including the National Women's Hall of Fame, the Time's list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List.
Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in a neighborhood that had been bombed in an attempt to drive-out the Black people who lived there. She attended a segregated school until she was able to transfer to an integrated high school in New York City. From a young age, she was educated and influenced by communists. Academically, she was particularly interested in the works of the Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre.
It is beyond the scope to detail everything she has done--Davis is an incredibly accomplished woman--so as a brief rundown of a few of her more notable actions, she
Participated in the radical Socialist German Student Union in East Germany
Joined the Black Panther Party
Joined the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Joined the Che-Lumumba Club
Began teaching, was fired for being a Communist, was rehired, was refired
Was declared a terrorist and on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List (only the third woman to be so listed)
Was declared not guilty by an all-White jury (after an international backlash)
Resumed teaching, but secretly, despite being officially hired? Her students were sworn to secrecy but it was an actual class.
Davis is a lesbian; she lives with her partner, fellow professor, Gina Dent.
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