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{{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>}}

While still a child, her parents sent Davis to New York, where she lived with Herbert Aptheker, the Communist Party’s chief theoretician (and a child molester),<ref>Bettina Aptheker, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=7GnE_w_ckBEC&q=%22our+train+rocked%22#v=snippet&q=%22our%20train%20rocked%22&f=false Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel]'' (Seal Press, 2011) ISBN 1580054404</ref> and his family. In New York, Davis studied at the Little Red Schoolhouse (LRS), notorious for its Communist faculty and student body, including future Weather Underground terrorist [[Kathy Boudin]], then at Elisabeth Irwin High School, an adjunct of LRS.

While still a child, her parents sent Davis to New York, where she lived with Herbert Aptheker, the Communist Party’s chief theoretician (and a child molester),<ref>Bettina Aptheker, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=7GnE_w_ckBEC&q=%22our+train+rocked%22#v=snippet&q=%22our%20train%20rocked%22&f=false Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel]'' (Seal Press, 2011) ISBN 1580054404</ref> and his family. In New York, Davis studied at the Little Red Schoolhouse (LRS), notorious for its Communist faculty and student body, including future Weather Underground terrorist [[Kathy Boudin]], then at Elisabeth Irwin High School, an adjunct of LRS.

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

 

In 1961, she won a scholarship to Brandeis University, where she would become a student to [[Herbert Marcuse]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=8uxfTF4Lm-kC&pg=PA267 Germany and the Americas: O-Z]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=eUcsAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA212 Marxism, Revolution and Utopia: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse, Volume Six, Volume 6]</ref>  In 1968 Davis joined the Communist Party, even as Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague spring.”

In an attempt to clean up radicalism at college campuses, President [[Ronald Reagan]] urged the dismissal of Davis from [[UCLA]] because of her membership in the communist party.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OwhvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA140 African Americans and Criminal Justice: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia]</ref>

In an attempt to clean up radicalism at college campuses, President [[Ronald Reagan]] urged the dismissal of Davis from [[UCLA]] because of her membership in the communist party.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=OwhvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA140 African Americans and Criminal Justice: An Encyclopedia: An Encyclopedia]</ref>