National Women’s Hall of Fame will induct Angela Davis

(Blackmans-Street.Today) — Angela Davis is scheduled to be inducted into The National Women’s Hall of Fame on its 100th anniversary in September in New York City.

After an angry outcry embarrassed members of the Civil Rights Institute and they reversed their decision and honored Davis.

Davis will be one of 10 prominent women inducted into the Hall of Fame for their history of achievements. The others include: Attorney/ activist Gloria Allred, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Native American lawyer, and professor Sarah Deer, actress, and activist Jane Fonda, United State Air Force officer Nicole Malachowski, former Congresswoman Laurie Spiegel, biologist Flossie Wong-Staal and artist/activist Rose O’ Neill.

ANGELA DAVIS

Judges selected the 2019 inductees based on their contributions through American society in the arts, athletics, business, education, government, humanities, philanthropy, and science.

Davis, who is 74, was born in Birmingham on June 26, 1944.

She is the author of 10 books. Her books include “Abolition Democracy;” “Are Prisons Obsolete;” “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass;” a collection of essays entitled “The Meaning of Freedom;” and her most recent book of essays, “Freedom Is a Constant Struggle; Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement.”

After 15 years, Davis retired as a professor at the University of California at Santa Cruz. She also served 18 months in prison for assisting in an escape, but a jury acquitted her of all charges in 1972.

Davis was a member of the Black Panther Party, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and she supported Palestinian prisoners.

This article originally published in the July 29, 2019 print edition of The Louisiana Weekly newspaper.