Activist Angela Davis

Denison University’s Laura C. Harris Series and Black Student Union welcome political activist, scholar and author Angela Davis. Davis is best known as a radical African-American educator and activist for civil rights and other social issues. She knew about racial prejudice from her experiences with discrimination growing up in Alabama. As a teenager, Davis organized interracial study groups, which were broken up by the police. She also knew several of the young African-American girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing of 1963.

Davis is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches courses on the history of consciousness. She is the author of several books, including “Women, Race, and Class” and “Are Prisons Obsolete?”.