Angela Davis, Ph.D.
Feminist Scholar, Writer, and Social Activist
February 23, 2009
7:30 p.m.
Student Union Apollo Room
Free & Open to the Public
No Tickets Required
Angela Davis has been deeply involved in our nation's quest
for social justice through her decades of activism and scholarship.
As a professor of history of consciousness and of feminist
studies at University of California, Santa Cruz, Davis emphasized the struggle for economic, racial, and
gender equality. Once on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted List,"
Davis focuses on the social problems associated with incarceration
and the criminalization of communities most affected by poverty
and racial discrimination. The author of eight books, including
Abolition Democracy, Are Prisons Obsolete?, and Women, Race and Class.
she is currently completing a book on prisons and American
history.
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