Anecdotes

In 1969 she was removed from her teaching position at UCLA as a result of her membership of the Communist Party. Then-governor Ronald Reagan swore she would never teach in the University of California system again.

In 1970 was on the FBI's most wanted list.

In 1970, Davis was implicated in an aborted prison escape in Northern California; she was accused of supplying the gun that killed four people during the incident. An intense police search drove her underground, and she became subject of a nationwide manhunt that resulted in 16 months of imprisonment. After an international "Free Angela Davis" campaign, she was acquitted of the charges in 1972.

Joined the Communist Party when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, and ran for U.S. Vice President on the Communist Party ticket in 1980.

Activist, author and tenured professor.

Former member of the Black Panthers and the Communist party.

In a relationship for many years with Bettina Aptheker, the daughter of political activist Herbert Aptheker.

Tenured professor at University of Santa Cruz, California. (2002)