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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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George Palmer Putnam

Founder, G.P. Putnam's Sons

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Thomas Richards

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Allison Janney

TV, Movie and Stage Actress

10th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Richards

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

18th cousin 3 times removed
via Edward I, King of England

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

15th cousin 5 times removed
via Ralph de Stafford

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

16th cousin 5 times removed
via Edmund Fitzalan

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Henry Bass

Boston Tea Part participant

17th cousin 4 times removed
via Humphrey de Bohun

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Waldo Peirce

American Painter

9th cousin 1 time removed
via Thomas Richards

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William Allen

3rd President of Bowdoin College

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Thomas Richards

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John L. Barstow

39th Governor of Vermont

6th cousin 4 times removed
via Thomas Richards

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William A. Barstow

3rd Governor of Wisconsin

5th cousin 5 times removed
via Thomas Richards

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Walter F. Lansil

American Painter

8th cousin 3 times removed
via William Brewster

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Richard A. Snelling

76th and 78th Governor of Vermont

10th cousin
via Thomas Richards

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Orson Bean

TV Actor

10th cousin
via Thomas Richards

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Matthew Perry

TV and Movie Actor

11th cousin 1 time removed
via William Brewster

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

10th cousin
via Thomas Richards

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Jim Douglas

80th Governor of Vermont

11th cousin 1 time removed
via William Brewster

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Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir William de Ros

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Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

19th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Richard Fitzalan

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Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

19th cousin 2 times removed
via John de Mowbray

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Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Roger de Clifford

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Porter Goss

1st Director of the C.I.A.
19th and last Dir. of Central Intelligence

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Thomas de Beauchamp

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Ruth Gordon

Actress, Playwright and Screenwriter

9th cousin 2 times removed
via William Brewster

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Alec Baldwin

Television and Movie Actor

20th cousin 1 time removed
via Ralph de Stafford

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Alec Baldwin

Television and Movie Actor

21st cousin
via Sir Maurice de Berkeley

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Alec Baldwin

Television and Movie Actor

18th cousin 1 time removed
via Sir Thomas Aylesbury

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Angela Y. Davis photo by Bernard Gotfryd