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She grew up in "Dynamite Hill"
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She was fired from her teaching job for her association with the Communist Party in which she fought it in court and was forced to be rehired.
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Charged with conspiracy, murder , and kidnapping
Waldschmidt-Nelson, Britta. "“We Shall Overcome”: The Impact of the African American Freedom Struggle on Race Relations and Social Protest in Germany after World War II." In The Transatlantic Sixties: Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade, edited by Waldschmidt-Nelson Britta, Kosc Grzegorz, Juncker Clara, and Monteith Sharon, 66-97. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2013. -
for kidnapping, murder, and interstate flight. was placed on many college dorm rooms
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by an all-white jury. Protests were held to raise awareness and money for her in East Germany
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Speech to Stanford Law Students
Davis, Angela Y. "Keynote Address." Stanford Law Review 43, no. 6 (1991): 1175-181. Accessed May 2, 2020. doi:10.2307/1229034. -
People knew her name from her style not her politics and struggle https://jstor-bc.orc.scoolaid.net/stable/1343885?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Angela&searchText=davis&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DAngela%2Bdavis%26amp%3Bacc%3Don%26amp%3Bwc%3Don%26amp%3Bfc%3Doff%26amp%3Bgroup%3Dnone&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_SYC-4946%2Fcontrol&refreqid=search%3A4e4a31275371b6eeaa417f9224fdd69c&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
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with Gina Dent
Davis, Angela, and Gina Dent. "Prison as a Border: A Conversation on Gender, Globalization, and Punishment." Signs 26, no. 4 (2001): 1235-241. Accessed February 5, 2020. jstor-bc.orc.scoolaid.net/stable/3175363. -
The Meaning of Freedom book
Simms, Angela. "The "Veil" of Racial Segregation in the 21st Century: The Suburban Black Middle Class, Public Schools, and Pursuit of Racial Equity." Phylon (1960-) 56, no. 1 (2019): 81-110. Accessed February 5, 2020. jstor-bc.orc.scoolaid.net/stable/26743832. -
"Hands off Assata Shakur'