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Angela Davis and Civil Rights

Her new school had many available learning resources that her previous school did not. This gave her an advantage to learn more at an early age thus enhancing her rather radical political views. .
             After high school, she went on to become an honors student at Brandeis University in Massachusetts from 1961-1965. Over a thousand miles away, the Birmingham Church bombing at the 16th Street Baptist Church had a powerful impact on her because she knew the 4 girls that were killed in the bombing. This only intensified her political involvement. .
             In 1965 she moved to Frankfurt, Germany to pursue her Doctorates degree in philosophy at Johann Wolfgang von Goethe University. Her stay in Germany only lasted two years. In 1967 she decided to move back to the United States to become involved in the growing racial conflict. Upon moving back to the U.S., she attended the University of California at San Diego. She would later earn a master's degree in philosophy in 1969. While in San Diego she became very active in politics where she met Kendra and Frank Alexander, who were active members of the Black Panther Party as well as the Communist Party. She was at awe upon meeting these two, to the extent that she moved to Los Angeles to work with them. Once in Los Angeles she would become a member of the Communist Party. .
             She began working at UCLA in 1969 and became a very popular. She was however fired due to her involvement with the Communist Party and Black Panther Party. Her firing was personally requested by the then Governor Ronald Reagan. In 1970 her political views became so popular that she was known worldwide and became and advocate for black political prisoners. Her life would forever change on August 7th of the same year when a 17-year-old African American student who was heavily armed took control of a courtroom. He took the judge as well as 3 women jurors' hostage. He freed the black defendants on trial and attempted to make an escape.


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