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Angela Davis

Angela Davis Was Born January 26, 1944, In Birmingham, Alabama.

On June 5, 1972, Angela Davis Was Acquitted Of Complicity In A Plot To Free Three San Quintin Prisoners From A Marin County, California Courthouse.

During The Escape Attempt, Four People Had Been Killed. Because The Guns Were Registered To Davis, The FBI Put Her On Its Ten Most Wanted List.

The FBI Tracked Her Down, Charged Her With Conspiracy, Kidnapping And Murder. She Sat In Jail 16 Months Awaiting Trial.

The Angela Davis Trial Was One Of The Most Infamous Courtroom Dramas In Contemporary American History. The Politically Outspoken, Self-Avowed Communist Had Earlier Been Fired From Her Job As A Professor Of Philosophy At UCLA.

Davis Ran Twice For Vice President As The Communist Party Candidate. She Was Also A Recipient Of The Lenin Peace Prize. Today She Is A Teacher, Lecturer And Writer.

"In Order For Black History To Live, We Must Continue To Breathe Life Into It." -- Hubert Gaddy, Jr.

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Monday, January 25th 2010 at 6:42PM
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THANK YOU for sharing that insight, Irma!!! VERY INTERESTING!!
Monday, January 25th 2010 at 7:17PM
Hugh Gaddy

Gaddy, here is something very few people know about Angela Y. Davis...her job as asst Dean when a lot of this came about was due to Dr. John Steward who gave her his job in the Dean's office so he could go back to college to study anthropology...Dr. Steward when he bacame the head of our African and African-American study dept.at UCD (he personally put the African on it..smile)

He told us how he had some of the Black Panthers in his class and after one day the FBI came put a gun to his head and told him to point out all of the members of the Panthers in his class caused him to have an epethmy of why were these young Black males and females were so determined in their quest to get us an African-centured education in our public school...he said he had to go back to the beginning to learn why we held on to our African identity so strongly...

SLOWLY BUT SURELY WE WILL LEARN ABOUT THESES THINGS, BECAUSE THIS IS THE ONLY WAY WE WILL BE ABLE TO END THIS DIVISION AMONGE OUR OWNSELVES AS WE DO NOW....

THANK YOU GADDY FOR ALL THAT YOU DO...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA

Another story I love to tell is about meeting Ms Davis in person.

My student partner in a final research paper and I choose to do Ms Davis.I would do all of the research and she would do the writting of the term paper. I made an appoint to go to San Fran State to interview her and, to sit in on one of her class lectures in Black Women study. She was not in her office when I arrives, so I stood in the empty floor I was on to wait for her...

Gaddy, I knew the moment that Ms Davis stepped into that building, because I felt her when she did...This has never happened to me before experiencing this and it has never happened again...THIS IS A POWERFUL FEMALE...
Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM
ROBINSON IRMA