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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Controversial activist to speak at UD Friday
A woman with one of the most recognizable faces from the 1970s will speak 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, at the University of Dayton’s Kennedy Union Ballroom.
Controversial political activist and history of consciousness professor Angela Davis will be the keynote speaker at the Annual Richard R. Baker Philosophy Colloquium hosted by the university’s philosophy department and The Concerned Philosophers for Peace.
The speech is free and open to the public.
Davis first gained national attention when then California Gov. Ronald Reagan removed her from a teaching post at the University of California-Berkley.
The feminist activist associated with the Black Panthers black power organization gained worldwide attention after being accused in the 1970 abduction and murder of Judge Harold Haley in Marin County, California.
Her arrest sparked the international “Free Angela Davis” campaign.
She was found innocent and has since rallied against racial injustice and been an advocate of abolition of the “prison-industrial complex.”
An author, Davis ran twice in the 1980s as vice president on the Communist ticket. She is reportedly no longer a member of the Communist Party.
