![]() ![]() In 1969, she came to national attention after being removed from her teaching position in the Philosophy Department at UCLA as a result of her social activism and her membership in the Communist Party, USA. ![]() Now Distinguished Professor Emerita at the University of California at Santa Cruz, Angela Davis’s political activism began as a youngster in Birmingham. The joint resolution notes Professor Davis’s work as an educator at “the university level and in the larger public sphere, has always emphasized the importance of building communities of struggle for economic, racial, and gender justice.” Oliver Robinson (D-Birmingham) sponsored the resolution to commend Professor Davis, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, who will be a featured speaker at a March 30 event to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church in 1963, which killed four young girls. Governor Robert Bentley refused to sign the resolution because, his spokeswoman said, “he had reservations about commending someone who had leadership ties to the Communist Party.” The resolution was offered by Black legislators and, like most commendation resolutions, was passed on a voice vote in a block of similar resolutions. ![]() The Alabama Legislature passed a joint resolution honoring civil rights activist and professor Angela Davis for her significant contributions to social justice through her activism and scholarship. ![]()
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