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==Education==

==Education==

[[File:Marcuse Angela Davis.png|right|300px|thumb|[[Herbert Marcuse]] with his student Angela Davis.]]

[[File:Marcuse Angela Davis.png|right|300px|thumb|[[Herbert Marcuse]] with his student Angela Davis.]]

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 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. 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 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>