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'''Regina Davis''' was an administrator of a school founded by the [[Black Panthers]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Tupac Amaru Shakur|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ueYgX5CN0rsC&pg=PT74|publisher=epubli|pages=74–|id=GGKEY:0H0100S9RP1}}</ref> She was the assistant of [[Ericka Huggins]].<ref name="auto">{{cite book|title="As Shelters Against the Cold": Women Poets of the Black Arts and Chicano Movements, 1965--1978|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=ow3vKdhH7j0C&pg=PA124|year=2008|publisher=ProQuest|isbn=978-0-549-97557-1|pages=124–}}</ref> According to [[Elaine Brown]], Davis managed the cooks, maintenance workers, teachers, and other personnel at the school, as well as planning the students' daily activities and weekly field trips and health check-ups.<ref name="Brown2015">{{cite book|author=Elaine Brown|title=A Taste of Power: A Black Woman's Story|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=UNfvCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT558|date=20 May 2015|publisher=Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group|isbn=978-1-101-97010-2|pages=558–}}</ref> Davis also (again according to Brown) managed the menus and the buying of food and materials, as well as speaking with parents and other schools in regard to current, former, and prospective students.<ref name="Brown2015"/>
[[Elaine Brown]] stepped down from chairing the Black Panther Party less than a year after [[Huey Newton]]’s return from Cuba in 1977 when Newton authorized the beating of Davis because she reprimanded a coworker when he did not do an assignment.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://socialism.com/drupal-6.8/?q=node/2291|title=Voices of Color—Invisible Women: Sexism in the Black Panther Party - www.socialism.com|publisher=}}</ref> This incident was the point at which Brown could no longer tolerate the [[sexism]] and [[patriarchy]] of the [[Black Panther Party]] (''A Taste of Power'', by [[Elaine Brown]], 1992, p. 444). Davis's beating left her hospitalized and with a broken jaw.<ref name="auto"/>
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