Angela Davis

CTL-E-5694 · Person · activist · 1944–present

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Combined Graph record U-06976 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5694.

Angela Davis (born Angela Yvonne Davis on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama) is a political activist, philosopher and author whose 1970–72 prosecution made her an international figure and whose later scholarship helped define prison-abolition thought. Hired as an assistant professor of philosophy at UCLA in 1969, she was fired by the University of California Board of Regents over her membership in the Communist Party USA; after a court ruled that firing illegal, the university dismissed her again. In August 1970, firearms registered in her name were used in an armed attack on a Marin County courtroom in which four people were killed; Davis, who was not present, was charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy, placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, captured in New York, and held for more than a year before a jury acquitted her of all charges on June 4, 1972. She later taught at the University of California, Santa Cruz — where she is Distinguished Professor Emerita — ran for vice president on the Communist Party ticket in 1980 and 1984, co-founded Critical Resistance in 1997, and wrote Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003). CultureTechLens profiled Davis in Short #185.

The record

• Also known as: Angela Yvonne Davis

Notes

STAGED 2026-10-16 (747 Program, Shorts Reverse-Gap Wave 6) — not merged; awaits founder merge go. Gate A: no match in the live graph (3,409 entities) under exact, normalized, alias, or token-containment screening, 2026-10-16. Reverse gap: CTL Short #185 published before any entity record existed. Vital status: Living; Distinguished Professor Emerita at UC Santa Cruz and active public speaker at staging (verified October 2026). Photo HELD — candidate requires file-page-level license verification. Project ID: PPL-001 per wave precedent (staged 'CULTGRAPH' ID is not registered). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = FILLED | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )

Sources

• Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Schlesinger Library, 'Papers of Angela Y. Davis' — biography, UCLA firing, trial and acquittal, academic posts, papers acquisition [primary] (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, 'Angela Davis' — cross-checked against the Schlesinger biography, October 2026 (education, candidacies, Critical Resistance, Are Prisons Obsolete?) (build store)
• CultureTechLens, Shorts Link Map §C catalog record, short_no 185 (CTL Short; url_status: recorded) (build store)

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