My Fourth Blog Post!
The Unsun g Activist Angela Davis is an activist who fought against systems of oppression. When she was a teenager she had already started being involved in the movement by making study groups, which eventually got broken up by the police. According to the site Wikipedia.org, “In 1970, guns belonging to Davis were used in an armed takeover of a courtroom in Marin County, California, in which four people were killed. Prosecuted for three capital felonies, including conspiracy to murder, she was held in jail for over a year before being acquitted of all charges in 1972.” Angela Davis ended up accidentally being part of a shoutout with the Black Panthers to get her brother out of jail which caused her to be on the FBI’s most wanted fugitives list. Davis wanted to change racism, the prison system and sexism...