She subsequently attended Brandeis University on a scholarship to study French literature and spent her junior year abroad at the University of Paris. Eager to leave Birmingham, Davis won a scholarship in 1959 to study at Elizabeth Irwin High School in New York City. Tuggle School, which had the battered textbooks and dilapidated buildings typical of many black-only schools in the days of Jim Crow. Bombings soon became such a constant that this section of Birmingham gained the nickname, “Dynamite Hill.” Davis attended the Carrie A. The following spring, white supremacists opposed to integration bombed the home of their neighbors. When Davis was four, her family moved out of the all-black projects into a white neighborhood. Frank Davis, who also briefly taught school, and schoolteacher Sally E. Davis is a university professor and widely recognized scholar on racial politics.Īngela Yvonne Davis was born in Birmingham on January 26, 1944, the oldest of four children of service-station owner B. She was implicated in a daring prisoner escape that resulted in several deaths but was later exonerated. Angela Davis (1944- ) is an educator and civil rights activist who gained notoriety in the turbulence of the late 1960s as a member of the Communist Party and associate of members of the civil rights group the Black Panther Party.
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