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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, and eventually acquitted in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. history. She is currently Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California and Presidential Chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She works for racial and gender equality and for prison abolition. Davis is a founder of Critical Resistance.