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Icon ANGELA DAVIS
The voice for Social Justice and change.
Angela Davis has been one of the prophetic voices to come out of the sixties
and seventies for social change. She has been and remains a powerful voice in
the fight for the liberation of black people, feminism and social equality. In
1969, Davis started talking publicly, expressing her opposition to the war of
Viet Nam, racism, sexism and the prison industrial complex. It also expresses
her support for gay rights and other social justice movements. Davis was a
member of the Communist Party and the Black Panthers.
In 1969, she is returned to her teaching at UCLA (University of California at
Los Angeles) position and is prohibited to teach throughout California at the
request of the Governor Ronald Reagan, because of her involvement in the
Communist Party. Although that fired from her job, it is the University to do
its job. In support, one thousand five hundred people arise in her class while
only 150 are registered.
Davis is even listed on the FBI list of America's most wanted due to the fact
that his bodyguard, a young African-American named Jonathan Jackson took
control of a federal courtroom, removed a judge and three other people. In the
assault against him four people including a judge and the assailant killed.
Davis is accused of kidnapping and murder for having bought the bullets used
by Jackson. These projectiles purchased by Angela Davis were intended for his
personal protection who she even received many death threats. Following this
conviction, she fled California, but is caught and arrested by the FBI in New
York.
She is now seen by her supporters as a political prisoner. She is finally
acquitted of all the charges against her and released. Homage to her, John
Lennon and Yoko Ono wrote a song called Angela, in their album, Sometime
in New York City, published 1972. The Rolling Stones did the same with the
song, Sweet Black Angel in their album Exile on Main Street the same year.
After her release, Davis visited Cuba, where she was very well received.
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