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'''Angela Yvonne Davis''' is a self-identified [[lesbian]] [[radical]] [[feminist]] [[Communist]] retired [[professor]] (from the [[University of California]], [[Santa Cruz]]) and [[leftist]] [[activist]] on [[social]] and [[human rights]] issues who had close relations with the [[Black Panther Party]] during the [[Civil rights movement]].<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/davis.html PBS Frontline interview]</ref> Davis was also a prominent member of the [[Communist Party USA]]. She is currently Professor of History of Consciousness at the [[University of California]], Santa Cruz.<ref>[http://humwww.ucsc.edu/HistCon/faculty_davis.htm Faculty bio at UC Santa Cruz]</ref>

'''Angela Yvonne Davis''' is a self-identified [[lesbian]] [[radical]] [[feminist]] [[Communist]] retired [[professor]] (from the [[University of California]], [[Santa Cruz]]) and [[leftist]] [[activist]] on [[social]] and [[human rights]] issues who had close relations with the [[Black Panther Party]] during the [[Civil rights movement]].<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/race/interviews/davis.html PBS Frontline interview]</ref> Davis was also a prominent member of the [[Communist Party USA]]. She is currently Professor of History of Consciousness at the [[University of California]], Santa Cruz.<ref>[http://humwww.ucsc.edu/HistCon/faculty_davis.htm Faculty bio at UC Santa Cruz]</ref>

Davis was raised, she told Julian Bond, by a mother who was “an officer of the Southern Negro Youth Congress,” an organization completely under the control of the Communist Party, and “was involved in the campaign to free the [[Scottsboro case|Scottsboro Nine]].”

Davis was raised, she told Julian Bond, by a mother who was “an officer of the Southern Negro Youth Congress,” an organization completely under the control of the Communist Party, and “was involved in the campaign to free the [[Scottsboro case|Scottsboro Nine]].”

{{cquote|And as a child, I had the opportunity to spend time with black communists who had come to Birmingham to help organize there, to help organize the Southern Negro Youth Congress.  … I often tell people that later, when I joined the Communist Party, it was a difficult decision because I always considered the Communist Party so conservative. It was my parents' friends, you know, I wanted to do something more interesting and more radical, but … I'm following in my mother's footsteps … My parents knew who was a member of the Communist Party and who was underground...”<ref>[http://www.virginia.edu/publichistory/bl/index.php?fulltranscript&uid=45 Angela Davis, interviewed by Julian Bond], Explorations in Black Leadership (University of Virginia). Cf. Phyllis Leffler, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7QaBgAAQBAJ Black Leaders on Leadership: Conversations with Julian Bond]'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) ISBN 113734251X, pp. 191-192</ref>}}

{{cquote|And as a child, I had the opportunity to spend time with black communists who had come to Birmingham to help organize there, to help organize the Southern Negro Youth Congress.  … I often tell people that later, when I joined the Communist Party, it was a difficult decision because I always considered the Communist Party so conservative. It was my parents' friends, you know, I wanted to do something more interesting and more radical, but … I'm following in my mother's footsteps … My parents knew who was a member of the Communist Party and who was underground...”<ref>[http://www.virginia.edu/publichistory/bl/index.php?fulltranscript&uid=45 Angela Davis, interviewed by Julian Bond], Explorations in Black Leadership (University of Virginia). Cf. Phyllis Leffler, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=Y7QaBgAAQBAJ Black Leaders on Leadership: Conversations with Julian Bond]'' (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014) ISBN 113734251X, pp. 191-192</ref>}}

In 1968 Davis joined the Communist Party, even as Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague spring.”  

In 1968 Davis joined the Communist Party, even as Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague spring.”  

In 1970, Marin County, California Judge Harold Haley’s head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun owned by Ms. Davis, in a hostage incident in which members of the Black Panthers attempted to free Davis' lover, Black Panther member George Jackson, who was imprisoned for armed robbery. Davis was acquitted.

In 1970, Marin County, California Judge Harold Haley’s head was blown off by a sawed-off shotgun owned by Ms. Davis, in a hostage incident in which members of the Black Panthers attempted to free Davis' lover, Black Panther member George Jackson, who was imprisoned for armed robbery. Davis was acquitted.

In 1979 Davis was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize (formerly named the International [[Stalin]] Peace Prize) by the Communist government of East Germany. Davis ran for Vice President of the United States in 1980 and 1984, alongside Gus Hall, on the Communist Party ticket.

In 1979 Davis was awarded the International Lenin Peace Prize (formerly named the International [[Stalin]] Peace Prize) by the Communist government of East Germany. Davis ran for Vice President of the United States in 1980 and 1984, alongside Gus Hall, on the Communist Party ticket.