# Angela Yvonne Davis Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, to middle-class schoolteacher parents in the "Dynamite Hill" neighborhood frequently targeted by the KKK, Davis became a prominent radical activist in the 1960s. She studied at Brandeis University, the University of Frankfurt, and UC San Diego under Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse, earning her PhD in philosophy. Davis joined the Communist Party USA and became associated with the Black Panther Party while teaching philosophy at UCLA. In 1970, California Governor Ronald Reagan had her fired from UCLA due to her Communist Party membership and radical activism. After being placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list in connection with a courthouse shooting, she was acquitted of all charges in 1972. Davis later returned to academia as a professor at UC Santa Cruz, focusing on feminism, racism, and the prison system. She co-founded Critical Resistance and became a leading advocate for prison abolition, authoring influential books including "Women, Race, and Class" and "Are Prisons Obsolete?" ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Angela Yvonne Davis]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> <!-- SerializedQuery: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Angela Yvonne Davis]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> - [[I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot Accept]] <!-- SerializedQuery END --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #books AND [[Angela Yvonne Davis]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC -->