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Angela Y. Davis

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Angela Y. Davis

Civil Rights Activist
and former Black Panther


Who is Angela Davis

Angela Davis is a civil rights activist, scholar, and author born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She grew up in a neighborhood known as "Dynamite Hill" due to frequent bombings of Black homes by the Ku Klux Klan. Davis attended Brandeis University, where she studied philosophy and French and was a member of the Communist Party.

Davis became involved in various civil rights and social justice causes, including the Black Panther Party, and she quickly became a prominent figure in the movement. In 1970, she was charged with murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy in connection with a courtroom shootout that resulted in the death of a judge. After fleeing from authorities and being placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List, Davis was captured and tried in a highly publicized trial. She was acquitted of all charges in 1972.

Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Davis continued to work as an activist, advocating for prison reform, women's rights, and racial justice. She taught at several universities, including the University of California, Santa Cruz, and is the author of several books, including "Women, Race, and Class," "Are Prisons Obsolete?," and "Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement."


Some of the most recently added connections of famous kin for Angela Y. Davis

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James B. Conant

President of Harvard University

8th cousin 2 times removed
via Thomas Richards

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George Herbert

8th Earl of Carnarvon
Owner, Highclere Castle (aka Downton Abbey)

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir John Howard

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

17th cousin 3 times removed
via Sir William de Ros

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William Henry Moore

Co-Founder, U.S. Steel and Nabisco

17th cousin 3 times removed
via Sir John Howard

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

21st cousin
via Edward I, King of England

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

21st cousin
via Henry Plantagenet

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

21st cousin
via Bartholomew de Badlesmere

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Ralph de Stafford

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Edmund Fitzalan

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Margaret de Stafford

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Ralph Neville

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Henry FitzHugh

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

21st cousin
via Humphrey de Bohun

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

21st cousin
via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

10th cousin
via Thomas Richards

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

15th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Humphrey Bourchier

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

21st cousin
via Sir John de Hastings

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

21st cousin
via Sir William de Boteler

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Ali Wentworth

TV Actress and Comedienne

21st cousin
via Sir John de Grey

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Penn Jillette

Magician

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir John Howard

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Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield

First Lady of President James Garfield

17th cousin 4 times removed
via Edmund Fitzalan

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Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield

First Lady of President James Garfield

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Humphrey de Bohun

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Richard Gere

Movie Actor

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Sir Richard Fitzalan

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Tennessee Williams

Author of A Streetcar Named Desire

19th cousin 2 times removed
via Humphrey de Bohun

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Humphrey Bogart

Movie Actor

16th cousin 2 times removed
via Elizabeth Fitzalan

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Angela Y. Davis photo by Bernard Gotfryd