2007-06-15 06:42:40 · 5 answers · asked by edyloosa 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
She was a very well known activist back in the 60's and 70's
You can read up on her below:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angela_Davis
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAdavisAN.htm
http://humwww.ucsc.edu/HistCon/faculty_davis.htm
http://voices.cla.umn.edu/vg/Bios/entries/davis_angela_yvonne.html
Hope this helps you, don't be sorry, you just got a history lesson...lol
2007-06-15 09:36:49 · answer #1 · answered by TheatreFan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Angela Davis was a Yippie (violent hippie) in the late 60s and early 70s. she also ran for Vice President with Gus Hall on the American Communist Party ticket. She's currently an english professor who teaches poetry at Stanford.
2007-06-15 13:47:39 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
she was an American Socialist who was periodically involved with the Black Panther Political Party. She gained her notoriety when she was linked to the murder of Judge Harold Haley during an attempt Black Panther Prison Break. She fled underground for 18 months as a fugitive when she was captured. She was eventually aquitted. She is currently a proffessor at the Uneriversity of California
2007-06-15 14:16:21 · answer #3 · answered by Funeeegurl 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
She was a leader of the radical Black Panthers back in the 60's.
2007-06-15 13:45:49 · answer #4 · answered by LoneStar 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
She was kidnapped by and became a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army. They disbanded when they realized there was no such place as Symbonia.
2007-06-15 13:46:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋