2017. http://www.speakoutnow.org/speaker/davis-angela. Angela Davis was born in Birmingham, Alabama. Hours, Special Collections in Performing Arts Email I had one photo I thought could work, the one I use for this email, the one Jay, my husband, took last year with his new professional camera and because it was in our apartment with its white walls, I […], Yoko Ono believes the seven-year itch in marriage is caused by the seven years it takes for our cells to die off and replace themselves, causing us to wake up one day as different people, staring into different people’s eyes. The struggle to save our flora and fauna, to save the air—this is ground zero of the struggle for social justice. “Our civilization has decided and very justly decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. Flyer for a film about Davis. We're not just saying that. circa 1970, Get It Together! Manson and Susan Atkins, seated, a member of his family of followers, are to plead on charges of murdering a Malibu musician, Gary Hinman. Invitation of support for Davis's defense fund. They show the grassroots efforts, particularly Davis moves to University of California, San Diego to continue studying philosophy. her time abroad, much activism is brewing in the United States. During Printed in New York by the New York Committee to Free Angela Davis. Contains an address by Werner Lamberz, member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity We especially salute today the Standing Rock Sioux. Los Angeles, California - June 9, 1972. After sixteen-months in incarceration, Davis was released on bail in 1972. 1971 March 23, Finding aid prepared by Lisa L. Crane, MLIS, May 2014, Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd Library, URL: http://libraries.claremont.edu/sc/default.html. Davis continues work on her Ph.D and becomes affiliated with George Jackson. angela davis | 9 june 1972 This is an edited version of the speech Angela Davis gave in Los Angeles, California at the Embassy Auditorium. Angela Davis: Early Life and Education. This was a case of history and facts being hard to determine. On August 18, 1970, four days after the initial warrant was issued, the FBI director J. Edgar Hoover listed Davis as the third woman and the 309th person to appear on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List. Published in San Francisco by the International Union of Students. Angela Davis speaks on a nationwide tour in Los Angeles. I briefly mentioned the Marin County Courthouse Incident in my post, but here you give a much broader overview of it. “Jury Isn’t out on Angela Davis.”. His wife Lucille is at right. Rep. Gerald Ford, R-Mich., gets a kiss from his wife Betty as they leave the White House on Friday, October 13, 1973 in Washington, D.C. after President Richard Nixon nominated Ford for the office of vice president. by Angela Y. Davis. Battleground Tracker: Tight race in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, CBS News/BET poll: Black voters motivated, but concerned about votes counting, The pivotal post-Election Day dates you need to know, A behind-the-scenes look at how mail-in ballots are processed. released from prison. “The freedom struggles of black people that have shaped the very nature of this country’s history cannot be deleted with the sweep of a hand. ... Bass told supporters during her acceptance speech in Chicago: “This is a historic moment in American political life. However, through the help of her lawyers, she was able to acquire a court order to remove her from the segregated area. 12 Apr. University. Angela Davis . Nixon was in a studio in Los Angeles and the two were shown on a split screen in the third and final debate. Davis became a supporter of the Soledad Brothers, three inmates accused of killing a prison guard at Soledad Prison. one two-part seminar entitled, "Black Women and the Development of the Black Community". Resistance to attacks on disabled people. 1971 September, Closing Defense Statement Made in the Angela Davis Case, Leo Branton, And Oscar López Rivera. Today she’s a retired professor of University of California, Santa Cruz, in its History of Consciousness Department and a former director of the university’s Feminist Studies department. The fact that Angela was acquitted by an all-white jury is definitely a shining moment in the history of the Black Power Movement and I think you did a wonderful job highlighting that within your site.