Angela Davis #1128

Caption from poster__      Angela Davis   Former California Governor Ronald Reagan once vowed that Angela Davis would never again teach in the University of California  system. Today she is a tenured professor  in the History of Consciousness Department  at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In 1994, she received the distinguished  honor of an appointment to the University of California Presidential Chair in African American and Feminist Studies.      Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama) is an African American communist organizer and philosopher who was associated with the Black Panther Party in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the Communist Party of the United States of America. She first achieved nationwide notoriety when she was linked to the murder of judge Harold Haley during an attempted Black Panther prison break; she fled underground, and was the subject of an intense manhunt. After 18 months as a fugitive, she was captured, arrested, tried,