This biography of Angela Davis chronicles the life and accomplishments of one of the most influential civil rights activists of the 20th century. From her early childhood in Birmingham, Alabama, to her activism in the Black Panther Party, to her later career as a professor and author,
Angela Yvonne Davis is an American Marxist and Marxist feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, author and social theorist. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA), running for Vice President in the 1980 and 1984 elections under that party. She is also a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS). She has been active in movements such as the Occupy movement and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.