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Angela Davis
Angela Yvonne Davis
(born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, 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 founded
Critical Resistance
, an organization working to abolish the
prison-industrial complex
. She is a retired professor with the
History of Consciousness
Department at the
University of California, Santa Cruz
, and a former director of the university's
Feminist Studies
department.
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