Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, #blackwomen #blackhistory #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackmarxists #blackfeminists #blacktivists #blackphilosphers #blackacademics #blackauthors #blacksky #addtoblacksky (1/91) - ThreadSky

audubonballroom.bsky.social • 37 days ago

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist,

#blackwomen #blackhistory #blackpeople #blackamerican #blackmarxists #blackfeminists #blacktivists #blackphilosphers #blackacademics #blackauthors #blacksky #addtoblacksky

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audubonballroom.bsky.social•37 days ago

philosopher, academic, and author. ...Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She was active in movements such as the Occupy movement and the Boycott,

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audubonballroom.bsky.social•37 days ago

Divestment and Sanctions campaign.

Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama; she studied at Brandeis University and the University of Frankfurt, where she became increasingly engaged in far-left politics. She also studied at the University of California, San Diego, before

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audubonballroom.bsky.social•37 days ago

moving to East Germany, where she completed some studies for a doctorate at the University of Berlin. After returning to the United States, she joined the CPUSA and became involved in the second-wave feminist movement and the campaign against the Vietnam War.

In 1969,

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audubonballroom.bsky.social•37 days ago

she was hired as an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). UCLA's governing Board of Regents soon fired her due to her membership in the CPUSA. After a court ruled the firing illegal, the university fired her for the use of

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audubonballroom.bsky.social•37 days ago

inflammatory language. In 1970, guns belonging to Davis were used in an armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, California, in which four people were killed. Prosecuted for three capital felonies—including conspiracy to murder—she was held in jail for over a year

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audubonballroom.bsky.social•37 days ago

before being acquitted of all charges in 1972.

...In 1991, amid the dissolution of the Soviet Union, she broke away from the CPUSA to help establish the CCDS. That same year, she joined the feminist studies department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where

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dem8z.bsky.social•37 days ago

See this thread below.

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