- Collection:
- Encyclopedia of Alabama
- Title:
- Angela Davis
- Creator:
- Neumann, Caryn E.
- Date of Original:
- 2008-01-09
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers
Civil rights workers--United States
Women social reformers--United States
African American educators--California--Los Angeles
Black Panther Party
Communists--California--Los Angeles
African American women political activists--California--Los Angeles
Trials (Conspiracy)--California
Trials (Murder)--California - People:
- Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, 32.75041, -86.75026
United States, California, Placer County, 39.06343, -120.71766 - Medium:
- articles
interactive resource - Description:
- Encyclopedia article about Angela Davis, educator and civil rights activist, who gained notoriety in the turbulence of the late 1960s as a member of the Communist Party and associate of members of the civil rights group the Black Panther Party. She was implicated in a daring prisoner escape that resulted in several deaths but was later exonerated. Davis is a university professor and widely recognized scholar on racial politics.
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- http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-1427
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