NAME
Angela Davis
OCCUPATION
Women's Rights Activist, Scholar, Academic, Civil Rights Activist
BIRTH DATE
January 26, 1944 (age 74)
PLACE OF BIRTH
Birmingham, Alabama
EDUCATION
University of California, San Diego, Brandeis
University, Humboldt University
ZODIAC SIGN
Aquarius
Catalysts For Change
"Radical simply means grasping things at the root."
"We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society."
"To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women.”
Angela Davis is an activist, scholar and writer who advocates for the oppressed. She has authored several books, including Women, Culture and Politics. Angela Davis, born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama, became a master scholar who studied at the Sorbonne. She joined the U.S. Communist Party and was jailed for charges related to a prison outbreak, though ultimately cleared. Known for books like Women, Race and Class, she has worked as a professor and activist who advocates gender equity, prison reform and alliances across color lines.