Block, Siteadmin, SkipCaptcha, Upload, Automoderated users, delete, edit, move, nsTeam2RO, nsTeam2RW, nsTeam2_talkRO, nsTeam2_talkRW, protect, rollback, Administrators, template
294,083
edits
Changes
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Line 12:
Line 12: − In 1961, she won a scholarship to Brandeis University. She encountered Marcuse at a pro-[[Soviet]] rally during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] and became his student.<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 a 2007 television interview, Davis said, "Herbert Marcuse taught me that it was possible to be an academic, an activist, a scholar, and a [[revolution]]ary."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2007/aug/23/bourgeois-marxist|title=The Bourgeois Marxist|author=Barbarella Fokos|publisher=sandiegoreader.com|date=August 23, 2007|accessdate=}}</ref>+ − + + + + +
→Early life
While still a child, her parents sent Davis to New York City, 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 City, 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 City, 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 City, 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.
==Education==
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 1961, she won a scholarship to Brandeis University. She encountered Marcuse at a pro-[[Soviet]] rally during the [[Cuban Missile Crisis]] and became his student.<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> Marcuse had moved to a position at the University of California, San Diego, and Davis followed him there after her two years in Frankfurt.<ref name="Waters"/> On her way back, she stopped in [[London]] to attend a conference on "The Dialectics of Liberation." The black contingent at the conference included the Trinidadian-American<!-- description per his own article --> [[Stokely Carmichael]] and the British Michael X. Although moved by Carmichael's rhetoric, Davis was reportedly disappointed by her colleagues' black nationalist sentiments and their rejection of communism as a "white man's thing."<ref>{{cite book|last=Davis|first=Angela Yvonne|title=Angela Davis: An Autobiography|date=March 1989|publisher=International Publishers|location=New York City|isbn=0-7178-0667-7|chapter=Flames}}</ref>
In 1968 Davis joined the Communist Party USA as Soviet tanks crushed the movement for [[democracy]] in the [[Prague Spring]]. She joined the Che-Lumumba Club, an all-black branch of the Communist Party USA named for international Communist sympathizers and leaders [[Che Guevara]] and [[Patrice Lumumba]], of Cuba and the Congo, respectively.<ref>{{cite web|title=Angela Davis Biography: Academic, Civil Rights Activist, Scholar, Women's Rights Activist|url=http://www.biography.com/people/angela-davis-9267589|website=biography|publisher=A&E Television Networks, LLC.|accessdate=}}</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>
In a 2007 television interview, Davis said, "Herbert Marcuse taught me that it was possible to be an academic, an activist, a scholar, and a [[revolution]]ary."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2007/aug/23/bourgeois-marxist|title=The Bourgeois Marxist|author=Barbarella Fokos|publisher=sandiegoreader.com|date=August 23, 2007|accessdate=}}</ref>
==Murder of Judge Haley==
==Murder of Judge Haley==