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Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne)

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1944-

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Angela Davis Materials,

 Collection
Identifier: H-Mss-1027
Abstract Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, scholar, and author. She emerged as a nationally prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s as a leader of the Communist Party USA. In 1970 she became heavily involved with George Jackson's case and is accused of taking part in a prison uprising that occurs related to Jackson.This collection contains 27 pamphlets, books and related ephemera concering the imprisonment and trial of...
Dates: 1970-1972