Angela Davis: A Brief Biography Of Angela Davis

In the decade of 1970’s there were women, african americans, native americans, gays and lesbians and other people were fighting for equality. Among this time a great icon was borned and her name was Angela Davis. She was born January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama. During this time the blood of her people flowed through the streets because of political powers that favored racism and terror. She lived in a black community namd Dynamite Hill, as she grew up she learned of fifty bombings against Black people in the very streets she walked and all of them unsolved. She knew four little Black girls who were her friends and who were murdered in the bombing of the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham in 1963. However no one knows the

But she found the poor being put down instead of helped and racism everywhere she went. She knew the outrage of all black people over the fact that the prisons and the jails of this country are filled with black men and women while the college campuses and offices are filled with white men and they did not like it.

Angela Davis is one person who did not hide in a library or behind a desk. She transformed her principles and views into an revolutionary push against injustice. She was not afraid to express her political beliefs. Sadly this ultimately cost her job, and led to her imprisonment.

On August seventh 1970 Jonathan Jackson gained control over a courtroom in Marin County, California. Once in the courtroom, Jackson armed the black defendants and took Judge Harold Haley and three female jurors as hostages. As Jackson transported the hostages and two black convicts away from the courtroom the police began shooting at the vehicle. The judge and the three black men were killed, and one of the jurors and the prosecutor were injured. The guns Jackson used in the attack, and the shotgun used to kill Judge Haley had been purchased by Angela and publicly registered by her in her own name two days

One was from a shotgun and the other from either a rifle or a handgun that may have been fired from outside the van. With this law enforcement failed to call a ballistics expert or to produce any ballistic evidence to identify the guns which fired these shots. However the evidence indicates that the law enforcement officers present on the scene and deputy sheriffs and prison guards were armed not only with rifles and handguns, but also with shotguns. This leads us to believe that the shots that killed Judge Haley were fired not by one of the prisoners, but by the so called officers