- In 1969 she was removed from her teaching position at UCLA as a result of her membership of the Communist Party. Then-governor Ronald Reagan swore she would never teach in the University of California system again.
- In 1970 was on the FBI's most wanted list.
- In 1970, Davis was implicated in an aborted prison escape in Northern California; she was accused of supplying the gun that killed four people during the incident. An intense police search drove her underground, and she became subject of a nationwide manhunt that resulted in 16 months of imprisonment. After an international "Free Angela Davis" campaign, she was acquitted of the charges in 1972.
- Activist, author and tenured professor.
- Former member of the Black Panthers and the Communist party.
- Joined the Communist Party when Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968, and ran for U.S. Vice President on the Communist Party ticket in 1980.
- In a relationship for many years with Bettina Aptheker, the daughter of political activist Herbert Aptheker.
- Tenured professor at University of Santa Cruz, California. (2002)
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