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Angela Davis is a communist campaigner for civil rights, a member of the Black Panther movement and a professor of philosophy, but her Marxist and revolutionary activism saw her name figure on the FBI’s most wanted list in the 1960s, on the orders of J. Edgar Hoover.
Angela Davis learned that equality between white and black people would only exist if there was also equality between men and women, and she quickly became the leading figure of black feminism.
In 1972, she was sentenced to death for having participated in a fatal shooting. Thanks to an international mobilisation, she was finally acquitted. And she became an icon of the struggle for black people’s rights.
Prisoner rights have been among her continuing interests; she is the founder of “Critical Resistance”, an organization working to abolish the prison-industrial complex.
My apparent look-alike.
