My Heros – Angela Davis
Angela Davis became a cause célèbre in 1969 when Governor Ronald Reagan ordered the Board of Regents to fire her from her position as associate professor of philosophy at UCLA because she was a member of the Communist Party, USA. She was later rehired after taking legal action.
She was the Vice Presidential candidate of the Communist Party USA in 1980 and 1984.
She broke with the Communist Party USA because of its support of the coup attempt in 1991.
A principal focus of her current activism is the state of prisons within the United States. She considers herself an abolitionist, not a “prison reformer.” She is one of the primary founders of Critical Resistance an organization that seeks to abolish the prison system and reform the criminal justice system.