Angela Yvonne Davis, born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham Alabama (author, scholar, leader) was one of the most effective female civil rights activists during the civil rights movement. She was a member of the communist party and held a close partnership to the Black Panther Party. She, and along with many others fought for equal rights for African Americans. Her interests were feminism, music African-American Studies, Marxism, history, philosophy, and social consciousness. Dr. Davis known for her many books and social efforts for freedom and equal rights of all persons have been one of the biggest advocates for prisoners in the United States prison system. Davis also found herself advocating for inmates of Soledad Prison who were being chard for killing a prison guard. She was held in prison for eighteen months but was acquitted June 1972.
Davis is an African American woman that portrayed diversity in her leadership. From gender to ethnicity she remained loyal to standing up for the minority here in America. She networked with White, Black, Afro-Latinas, women, men, middle class, lower class, prisoners, students, politicians, and many more. As early as 1969 her speeches were soon broadcasted for the world to see how powerful she had become. Her speeches often reflected her opposition to racism, sexism, the prison industrial complex; as well as expressing her support of gay rights and other justice movements.
Not only did she fight for human rights in America but she traveled the world to join many social justice movements. Angela Yvonne Davis has had the opportunity to be a professor at as many as five universities. Most current, he is now a retired professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She continues to fight for women’s rights and racial justice.
My parents taught me the importance of Angela Davis at a young age along with other leaders. There is only a handful of women I could directly identify with that are in the public eye. We learn to embrace leaders like Harriet Tubman, Maya Angelou, Dorothy Heights, Sojourner Truth, Coretta Scott King, Mae Jemison, Winnie Mandela, Ursula Burns and others. They have liberated women around the world, along with people of color.
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