Angela Davis

Angela Devis was an international celebrity in the early 1970's, with her "Afro" hairstyle. She was an image of that time, like Che Guevara. Che Guevara died in 1967 but today Angela Davis is alive. Angela Davis was born in Birmengham, Alabama on January 26th, 1944, her family wasn't poor, put life in Alabama was violent. After some years Angela and her brothers were moving from a place to another. Angela went to high school in New York City. And there she became a communist after than she attended Brandeis University in Massachusset. She met the German philosopher Herbert Marcuse and they went to Frankfurt to study philosophy instead her brother Ben choose a different carrer he became a professional football player. In 1969 Angela Davis moved to California and tought philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles, the Governor of California hated communism and so he fired her. Angela was also a supporter of the bLack Panther Party and ij 1970 she helped three black prisoners called the Saledad Brothers. The three men killed a guard Saledad prison, one of the prisoners was called George Jackson , his brother Jonathan jackson, and some friends entered a curt. They demanded to release of the Saledad Brothers and so they took hostage, but on the hostage " judge Harold Holy died, Jonathan Jackson also died, but the problem was that his guns belonged to Angela Davis. FBI agents arrested her in New York City. In  her trial in 1972 the jury declered she was not guilty" and she was the most Wanted fugitives. after her release Angela Davis moved to Cube, she returned to the USA and become a vice presidential candidate, for the communist Party.Today she is a Visiting Professor in " Women's and Gender Studies" at Syracuse University in the State of New York, she also help gay and lesbian.