What is Angela Davis?
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2013}} [[File:Angela davis at esu.jpg|thumb|194x377px|Angela Davis in 2006]] '''Angela Yvonne Davis''' (born January 26, 1944 in [[Birmingham, Alabama]]) is an [[African Americans|African American]] [[activism|political activist]] and author. She first became famous because she was a prominent member of the [[Communist Party of the United States]] (CPUSA) and was involved in [[Black Power]] movements in the 1960s and 1970s. Since then she has become known for her work as a writer and speaker while teaching at the [[University of California]]. She has done research in the areas of [[feminism]] and critical theory and is a [[prison abolitionist]]. Davis grew up in Alabama, then went to college at [[Brandeis University]] and [[University of California, San Diego]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Angela Davis's Biography|url=https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/angela-davis-40|access-date=2020-10-25|website=The HistoryMakers|language=en}}</ref> She was involved in activism from her youth. After becoming a [[Doctor of Philosophy]] in Germany, she returned to the US and began teaching as a [[professor]]. In 1969, she was fired from teaching for being a member of the [[Communist]] Party. A judge decided it was an illegal firing and the school eventually hired her back.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Saxon|first=Wolfgang|date=April 14, 1997|title=Jerry Pacht, 75, Retired Judge Who Served on Screening Panel (Published 1997)|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/14/us/jerry-pacht-75-retired-judge-who-served-on-screening-panel.html|access-date=2020-10-25|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In 1970 she was put in prison by [[FBI]] agents. Some black [[Revolutionary|revolutionaries]] tried to break their allies out of prison by kidnapping a [[White people|white]] [[judge]] and some jurors in [[Marin County, California|Marin County]], but the [[police]] didn't let them get away and the revolutionaries and judge were shot to death.<ref>{{Cite web|date=Augus