![]() ![]() In 19, Davis ran for vice president on the Communist Party ticket. However, she was immediately hired by San Francisco State University, where she taught for 12 years. ![]() ![]() After her acquittal, Governor Ronald Reagan said she would never teach in California again. While in prison, Davis wrote her first book entirely by hand. Davis was put on the FBI’s most wanted list, despite her absence from the crime scene, and after spending 18 months in jail during her trial, was acquitted in 1972. In 1970, several inmates attempted to escape from a courthouse, using guns belonging to Davis and killing four people. After earning her master’s degree in 1968, Davis became an assistant professor at UC San Diego, but was removed a year later because of her political affiliations. Davis attended Brandeis University, where she graduated in 1965. From an early age, she was active in the Black Panthers and Communist Party, and volunteered for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee while still in high school. Angela Davis was born in Alabama, on January 26, 1944. ![]()
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