Crate Diggers: Happy Birthday Angela Davis

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Happy Birthday Angela Davis

“We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society” - Angela Davis
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Angela Davis was born on January 26th, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. As a child she visited NYC with family.
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In 1959 she participated in the Girl Scouts national roundup. She went to Brandeis university. She traveled to France, Switzerland, and Finland. In 1963 she returned to the U.S. and was interviewed by the FBI about possible communist ties. She then majored in French and did a few years as a student in France. She graduated in 1965. She then worked at the university of California, San Diego. She then joined the Che-Lumumba Club. She earned her master’s degree from UC-San Diego and her doctorate from Humboldt university. In 1969 she became an acting assistant professor in the philosophy department at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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She also became a member of the Black Panther party. In 1970 she was fired from her position at UCLA due to her speech on police brutality. A warrant for Davis’ arrest was issued due to her purchasing weapons that were involved in the Marin county courthouse incident. She was then placed on the FBI’s most wanted list. She was then captured in NYC. She was sent to prison in solitary confinement.
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In 1971 more than 200 local committees in the United States, and 67 in foreign countries including John Lennon, worked to free Davis from prison. In 1972 she was released. She then visited Cuba.
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In 1979 she visited the USSR and was awarded with the Lenin peace prize. In 1980 she became a professor at San Francisco State University.
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In 1991 she became a professor at University of California, Santa Cruz and Rutgers University. In 1992 she became a visiting professor at Syracuse university.
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In 1995 she opposed the Million Man March. In 1997 she admitted to being a homo sexual. In 2001 she spoke out against the war on terror.
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In 2003 she lectured at Agnes Scott college. In 2005 she declared that the aftermath of hurricane katrina was due to the structures of racism, capitalism, and imperialism.
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In 2008 Davis participated as a keynote speaker at Vanderbilt University's conference, "Who Speaks for the Negro?". In 2009 she was the keynote speaker at the University of Virginia Carter G. Woodson Institute.
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In 2011 Davis spoke at the Philadelphia and Washington Square Occupy Wall Street assemblies. In 2012 she was awarded with the Blue Planet Award.
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In 2014 she returned to UCLA. In 2016 she was awarded a Doctor of Humane Letters in Healing and Social Justice.
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Today is her 73rd birthday and we would all like to say happy birthday Angela Davis.

Books by Angela Davis
  • If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance (1971)
  • Angela Davis: An Autobiography (1974)
  • Joan Little: The Dialectics of Rape (1975)
  • Women, Race, & Class (1983)
  • Women, Culture & Politics (1990)
  • The Angela Y. Davis Reader (1998)
  • Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude "Ma" Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday (1999)
  • Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003)
  • Abolition Democracy: Beyond Prisons, Torture, and Empire (2005)
  • The Meaning of Freedom: And Other Difficult Dialogues (2012)
  • Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement (2015)
Videos of Angela Davis

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