She is a living witness to the historical struggles of the contemporary era. Professor Davis's political activism began when she was a youngster in Birmingham, Alabama, and continued through her high school years in New York. But it was not until that she came to national attention after being removed from her teaching position in the Philosophy Department at UCLA as a result of her social activism and her membership in the Communist Party, USA. In she was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List on false charges, and was the subject of an intense police search that drove her underground and culminated in one of the most famous trials in recent U.
During her sixteen-month incarceration, a massive international "Free Angela Davis" campaign was organized, leading to her acquittal in At fifteen, after earning a scholarship, Davis traveled to New York to complete high school. In , Davis traveled to Germany to study for two years, and then to the University of Paris for another year.
After returning to the United States, Davis attended Brandeis University, where she graduated magna cum laude in Davis then returned to Germany for further study before enrolling in the University of California, San Diego, where she earned her M. Upon earning her master's degree, Davis became an assistant professor at UCSD, but due to her connections with the Panthers and the Communist Party, she was removed a year later. In August of , Jackson and several other inmates attempted to escape from the Marin County Courthouse, and a judge and three others were killed.
Davis was quickly put on the FBI's most wanted list, despite the fact that she was not at the crime scene, and was apprehended in New York. As a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, in the late s, she was associated with several groups including the Black Panthers. But she spent most of her time working with the Che-Lumumba Club, which was an all-Black branch of the Communist Party. Hired to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles, Davis ran into trouble with the school's administration because of her association with communism.
They fired her, but she fought them in court and got her job back. Davis still ended up leaving when her contract expired in Outside of academia, Davis had become a strong supporter of three prison inmates of Soledad Prison known as the Soledad brothers they were not related.
These three men — John W. Cluchette, Fleeta Drumgo and George Lester Jackson — were accused of killing a prison guard after several African American inmates had been killed in a fight by another guard. Some thought these prisoners were being used as scapegoats because of the political work within the prison. During Jackson's trial in August , an escape attempt was made and several people in the courtroom were killed. Skip to main content. Scheduling Info. Details Biography Topics.
Her most recent book is Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement Davis is a founding member Critical Resistance, a national organization dedicated to the dismantling of the prison industrial complex.
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