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Communist, writer and human rights activist Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Her date of birth is January 24, 1944. Angela has shown excellent academic results. Her dream was to become a teacher. The humiliated position of the blacks, the support of the Ku Klux Klan by some politicians pushed the girl to Marxism. Studying at the University of Massachusetts not only expanded her views, but also made it possible to communicate with an extraordinary person - the philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Angela had to combine her studies with work, as she decided to continue her education in Europe.
In 1963, she succeeds, and Davis not only attends the Goethe University in Frankfurt (Germany), but also joins the socialist movement, studies for some time in France, preferring the philosophy of Sartre and Camus. The sixties in America are notable for permissiveness in relation to extremist attacks by the Ku Klux Klanists, terrorist attacks and the murders of leaders of the struggle for the civil rights of blacks. The death in 1968 of Martin Luther King not only sharpened the confrontation in the country, but also attracted the attention of the world community. Angela Davis returns to the United States. Membership in the country's communist party becomes the final choice that determined all its future activities. Due to her political views, she, at the direction of Reagan, was suspended from teaching at the University of Los Angeles.
Support for the Black Panthers organization and a close relationship with its activist George Jackson will result in Davis being arrested two years later on false charges of attempted assassination of police officers. In connection with the imprisonment of Angela Davis, photos of the human rights activist will regularly appear in mass media in many countries of the world and in the USSR, including those where demonstrations were held demanding her release. She was acquitted and continued her activities as a member of the Central Committee of the American Communist Party. She has been to the Soviet Union many times. Twice she was nominated for one of the highest positions in America - the vice president of the country. She was awarded an honorary order, medal and prizes from Cuba, Germany, the USSR for her contribution to peace and the protection of human dignity.
2015 Angela Davis is a public figure advocating for the rights of women and prisoners, professor at the University of Santa Cruz.
Angela Davis has brown eyes, naturally dark hair, dark skin and full lips. The shape of the face is oval, the forehead is medium, the hair is curly, thick. Angela Davis does not change her hair color, preferring natural. The human rights activist has a large, wide nose and a rounded chin. Sometimes wears glasses. The human rights activist is 174 cm tall, she has no tattoos.
