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7 unusual facts about Angela Davis


Eric Williams Memorial Collection

Angela Davis, civil and women’s rights activist, was the featured speaker in 2003, and in honour of the Haitian Bicentennial, University of Virginia political scientist Robert Fatton, Jr., and prize-winning author Edwidge Danticat spoke in 2004.

New College of California School of Law

A number of well-known lawyers and activists taught and studied at the school, including Roberta Achtenberg, Stephen Bingham, Angela Davis, Peter Gabel, and Tom Hayden.

Nueva trova

Tania Castellanos, a filín singer and author, wrote ¡Por Ángela! in support of Angela Davis.

Phillip E. Hardy

He has also recently completed two screenplays about the life of the controversial communist activist Angela Davis, as well as one about serial killer Jack The Ripper.

Treatment of slaves in the United States

Angela Davis contends that the systematic rape of female slaves is analogous to the medieval concept of droit du seigneur, believing that the rapes were a deliberate effort by slaveholders to extinguish resistance in women and reduce them to the status of animals.

Trova

Tania Castellanos, a filín singer and author, wrote ¡Por Angela! in support of Angela Davis.

Virgilio Savona

In 1971 he wrote Angela, a song for Angela Davis, afroamerican communist leader, innocent in prison at this time.


Teaching Philosophy

Published contributors include philosophers from a range of backgrounds and orientations, including Norman Bowie, Myles Brand, Peter Caws, Angela Davis, Daniel Dennett, Alasdair MacIntyre, Rosalind Ladd, Michael Pritchard, Anita Silvers, and Robert C. Solomon.

Thurgood Marshall College

Once the controversy and battles among students, faculty, and administration commenced—featuring lively figures such as Herbert Schiller, Herbert Marcuse, and Angela Davis—the future of Third College would be in a turmoil that didn't fully clear until it finally received its official name, Thurgood Marshall College, in 1993.


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