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In Birmingham,largest city in Alabama. Davis also has another brother, Reginald Davis, and sister, Fania Davis Jordan.
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Davis attended Carrie A. Tuggle School, a black elementary school; later she attended Parker Annex, a middle-school branch of Parker High School in Birmingham.
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Her father later owned and operated a service station in theblack section of Birmingham
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Angela Davis is best known as a radical African American educator and activist for civil rights and other social issues.
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In 1970 Angela Davis was put on the ‘‘ten most wanted criminals’’ in american lists
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In 1970, she was imprisoned for charges related to her involvement with three prison inmates.
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In 1980 she ran unsuccessfully for vice president on the Communist Party ticket
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In 1991 Davis became a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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Davis is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class (1980) and Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003).
