Angela Davis
ActingPersonal Info
gender
Female
birthday
January 26, 1944 (82 yrs)
place of birth
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
also known as
Angela Yvonne Davis · Анджела Ивонн Дэвис · Анджела Дэвис · Angela Y. Davis
total credits
37 movies
Biography
Angela Davis is an American political activist, academic scholar, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and had close relations with the Black Panther Party through her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. Her interests include prisoner rights; she co-founded Critical Resistance, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex. She was a professor (now retired) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university's Feminist Studies department.
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