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Bandito
10th March 2011, 14:11
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Angela Davis, radical black activist and philosopher, was arrested as a suspected conspirator in the abortive attempt to free George Jackson from a courtroom in Marin County, California, August 7, 1970. The guns used were registered in her name. Angela Davis was eventually acquitted of all charges, but was briefly on the FBI's most-wanted list as she fled from arrest.

Angela Davis is often associated with the Black Panthers and with the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. She joined the Communist Party when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968. She was active with SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) before the Black Panthers. Angela Davis ran for U.S. Vice President on the Communist Party ticket in 1980.

Angela Davis has been an activist and writer promoting women's rights and racial justice while pursuing her career as a philosopher and teacher at the University of Santa Cruz and San Francisco University -- she achieved tenure at the University of California at Santa Cruz though former governer Ronald Reagan swore she would never teach again in the University of California system. She studied with political philosopher Herbert Marcuse. She has published on race, class, and gender.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdavisAN.htm
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/aframerwriters/p/angela_davis.htm

Per Levy
10th March 2011, 14:41
angela davis is a great writer and i enjoyed her books a lot, especially:

"Women, Race and Class"(great book wich focuses for the most part on the role of black women during slavery and beyond),
"Abolition Democracy",
"Women, Culture and Politics"(very good book with a lot essays and speeches of her during the reagan era).

RED DAVE
10th March 2011, 15:01
Frankly, I think she's a terrible writer and an obvious thinker. As witnessed by her loyalty to, of all organizations, the CPUSA, which by the late 60s, when she joined, was burned out.

Her book on the blues is useful mainly because she took the trouble to transcribe the lyrics of every song that Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey recorded, which is extremely valuable for scholars.

As a political icon, she was one of the most important people of the 60s, but as a leader, she was nil.

Here's a sample of her writing.

Marcuse’s Legacies (http://gseis.ucla.edu/faculty/kellner/illumina%20folder/Angela_Davis%5B1%5D%5B1%5D.pdf)

RED DAVE

RedHal
11th March 2011, 06:19
she voted for Obama, and in her last interview on Democracy Now! she stated that Obama won despite the money. WTF?!