Personal Info
Born: 1944-01-26
Place of Birth: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Known For: Acting
Also Known As:
Angela Yvonne Davis
Анджела Ивонн Дэвис
Анджела Дэвис
Angela Y. Davis
Dr. Angela Davis
Angela Davis
Biography
Angela Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests include prisoner rights; she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She was a professor (now retired) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.
