Conservatives thought they’d won a round of “gotcha” when it was revealed that one of Davis’s ancestors was a passenger on the Mayflower. But within her genealogy lie truths about how racial hierarchy has always functioned in America.
Radical black activist Angela Davis was visibly shocked when she learned that she was a descendant of the pilgrims on the Mayflower. The self-avowed Marxist feminist and former black power activist in the 1970s appeared as a guest on the PBS.