UCLA History: Angela Davis

A report in today’s LA Times on the Occupy protests at several CSU and UC campuses (including one at UCLA) reported the following:

…Turnout was small at UCLA. Occupy protesters set up eight or so tents on Wilson Plaza, which the demonstrators said they renamed after Angela Davis, the politically radical professor who taught at UCLA. The group said they intended to keep the tents up through the night, and campus authorities said they were undecided if that would be allowed…

Full story at http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-student-protests-20120302,0,3924235.story

Why Angela Davis?  

A newscast from October 1969 deals with the Angela Davis controversy at UCLA of that era:  (The Angela Davis clip appears at around 1:20 minutes.)