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Angela Davis, American Political Activist

Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist in the 1960s working with the Communist Party USA, and was briefly involved in the Black Panther Party during the Civil Rights Movement. After allegedly purchasing firearms used in the 1970 armed takeover of a Marin County, California courtroom, in which four people were killed, she was prosecuted for conspiracy, and acquitted of this charge. Davis is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department. Bernard Gotfryd, 1974.

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Title: Angela Davis, American Political Activist

Caption: Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist in the 1960s working with the Communist Party USA, and was briefly involved in the Black Panther Party during the Civil Rights Movement. After allegedly purchasing firearms used in the 1970 armed takeover of a Marin County, California courtroom, in which four people were killed, she was prosecuted for conspiracy, and acquitted of this charge. Davis is a professor emerita at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department. Bernard Gotfryd, 1974

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