Angela Davis:
The intentions of this guide is to provide selected lectures, interviews and published works by and about Angela Davis.
This guide is not meant to be an exhaustive or definitive source of information on Angela Davis.
Angela Yvonne Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on January 26, 1944. She is the daughter of two Alabama schoolteachers. She is internationally known for her ongoing work to combat all forms of oppression in the United States and abroad. Over her lifetime her political work allowed her to become a member of groups such as the Black Panther Party for Self Defense, the National Committee of the Communist Party, the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, the National Black Women’s Health Project and the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism.
She is Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness at University of California, Santa Cruz. It is her work as an educator—both at the university level and in the larger public sphere—that has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender equality.
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This guide was created by Kofi Acree, Director of the John Henrik Clarke Africana Library; send email.