Angela Davis (1944-)
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- Name (English)
- Angela Davis
- Short name
- Angela Davis
- Year of birth
- 1944
- Short Description
- "Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. She is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Ideologically a Marxist, Davis was a member of the Communist Party USA until 1991, after which she joined the breakaway Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. She is the author of over ten books on class, feminism, and the U.S. prison system.
Born to an African American family in Birmingham, Alabama, Davis studied French at Brandeis University and philosophy at the University of Frankfurt in West Germany. Studying under the philosopher Herbert Marcuse, a prominent figure in the Frankfurt School of Marxism, Davis became increasingly interested in far-left politics. Returning to the U.S., she studied at the University of California, San Diego before moving to East Germany, where she gained a doctorate at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Back in the U.S., she joined the Communist Party and involved herself in a range of leftist causes, including the second-wave feminist movement, the Black Panther Party, and the campaign against the Vietnam War. In 1969 she was hired as an acting assistant professor of philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). UCLA´s governing Board of Regents soon fired her due to her Communist Party membership; after a court ruled this illegal, the university fired her again, this time for her use of inflammatory language." - (en.wikipedia.org 31.01.2020) - Entity Encoding
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X. Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten in Ostberlin 1973, Bild 23: Angela Davis bei einer Rede auf dem Bebelplatz. SW-Foto, 31.07.1973 © Kurt Schwarz.
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X. Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten in Ostberlin 1973, Bild 24: Angela Davis gibt Autogramme. SW-Foto, 31.07.1973 © Kurt Schwarz.
Die US-amerikanische...
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X. Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten in Ostberlin 1973, Bild 25: Porträtfoto von Angela Davis. SW-Foto, 31.07.1973 © Kurt Schwarz.
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X. Weltfestspiele der Jugend und Studenten in Ostberlin 1973, Bild 26: Angela Davis grüßt mit erhobener Faust ins Publikum. SW-Foto, 31.07.1973 © Kurt Schwarz.
Die US-amerikanische...
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