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Born January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, AL
Scholar and author Angela Davis was one of the most publicized activists of the 1960s and 1970s. The subject of a nationwide police hunt after she was implicated in the 1970 Soledad Brothers shooting, she was imprisoned, tried, and acquitted in 1972. Her autobiography was published in 1974; her latest book, Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, came out in 2015. She taught philosophy, aesthetics, and women’s studies (particularly the historical contributions of Black women) at both the University of California, Santa Cruz and Rutgers University from 1991 to 2008. She was the featured speaker and honorary co-chair at the 2017 Women’s March in Washington, D.C.