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American academic and political activist (born 1944)

For other people named Angela Davis, see Angela Davis (disambiguation).

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American Marxist and feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, and author.

She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz.^[3] Davis was a longtime member of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA) and a founding member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism (CCDS).

She was active in movements such as the Occupy movement and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign.

Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama; she studied at Brandeis University and the University of Frankfurt, where she became increasingly engaged in far-left politics.

She also studied at the University of California, San Diego, before moving to East Germany, where she completed some studies for a doctor