Angela Davis

2023 - 2 - 21

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Angela Davis 'Can't Believe' Ancestry Discovery About Mayflower ... (Today.com)

Political activist Angela Davis learns that she is descended from slave owners, Alabama politicians, slaves and Revolutionary War soldiers in Finding Your ...

"That's a little too much to deal with right now," she says. No, my ancestors did not come here on the Mayflower," Davis says, laughing. Davis guesses what her mom would've made of this: "It's good to know my genetic background. Isom Spencer decided to fight back and took the matter to court. But at the same time I think it makes me even more connected to struggling for a better world," she says. 21 episode of "Finding Your Roots," Davis learns the truth about some of her family’s lingering mysteries.” I didn't know who the slave owners were. Gates explains that her father, Benjamin Frank Davis, grew up in a small town in Alabama with his mother Mollie Spencer. "I'm going off the top of my head! “I always imagined my ancestors as the people who were enslaved. It's so funny, I can see her in him," she notes. it's really amazing," she says.

Angela Davis Learns She Had Ancestors On The Mayflower In ... (Yahoo News)

Angela Davis was shocked to learn that her ancestors came to America on the Mayflower, making her descendants of people who helped found the country.

Civil rights activist Angela Davis learns surprising genealogy on ... (Salon)

"That's a little too much to deal with right now," Davis said after receiving a big surprise from the show's host.

"He has my mother's lips," Davis said, looking at a photo of her grandfather for the first time. But after digging into her family tree, and then digging even further, he presented Davis with answers to questions that she would have never even thought to ask. "No, I can't believe this," Davis said.

Civil rights activist Angela Davis learns she's a descendant of ... (al.com)

Birmingham native Angela Davis was a subject of the PBS show 'Finding Your Roots' on Feb. 21.

Isom Spencer continued to fight, and finally the Freedmen’s Bureau of the federal government ordered that the children be released from the plantation and turned over to their family. “She looks like her daddy.” Davis said her father never revealed that to her. “The American Revolution should have gone further than it did,” she said. He was also publisher of the Goodwater Enterprise newspaper. “So many people have called those of us who try to fight against racism and who have visions of a more radical democracy as un-American.

'No, I Can't Believe This': Angela Davis Stunned After Learning Her ... (Atlanta Black Star)

Communist activist and longtime University of California Santa Cruz professor Angela Davis recently learned to her disbelief that her ancestry traces back.

The “enslaved arrived one year before Mayflower and built Jamestown in 1619,” she said. She did not know the extent of her Caucasian roots nor their prominence! She also said she knew her ancestors were likely enslaved people. 23, 1972, and her charges were acquitted in June of that year. Davis ultimately served nearly a year and a half in jail. She was once widely believed to be the face of a Black liberation movement. Social media users shared a similar range of emotions after the stunning revelation. Afterward, she went into hiding, and the FBI placed her on its Most Wanted list. “I always imagined my ancestors as the people who were enslaved,” Davis said. Gates revealed to the stunned Davis, her mother’s white father, John Austin Darden was an Alabama legislator. The shocking family history is more profound for Davis, 79, due to her decades-long commitment to political activism. The guns used in the courtroom shooting were registered to Davis.

Angela Davis' Ancestry Results on PBS' "Finding Your Roots ... (What's Trending ·)

Angela Davis appeared on PBS' "Finding Your Roots," where host Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. revealed her relation to a Mayflower passenger.

Finding Your Roots is currently on its ninth season, and has featured episodes tracing the lineage of Julia Roberts, Viola Davis, Clare Danes, Niecy Nash, Joe Manganiello, David Duchovny and more. I was sad for Angela Davis. Others felt that regardless of his delivery, Dr. I really hate his reaction and not getting the social cue of Angela Davis being devastated by this news. Some felt that while Dr. Indigenous peoples populated the present day United States for potentially thousands of years prior to their arrival. [February 22, 2023] Angela Davis descending from Mayflower passengers just further emphasizes the extent of rape during slavery. American history tends to [romanticize Plymouth Rock](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/thanksgiving-myth-and-what-we-should-be-teaching-kids-180973655/) and the pilgrims interactions with the indigenous Wampanoag and Mashpee people, but in reality, it is likely that Thanksgiving was more so a violent colonization effort. The ship carried The history of the Massachusetts Bay Colony has long been debated among educators and historians. Henry Louis Gates Jr., began in 2012, and features celebrities, prominent journalists and politicians getting answers about their ancestry.