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...revolutionary fervor and her associations with the Black Panthers, the Communist Party, and other groups advocating violence to throw off capitalist repression, Angela Davis has managed more than anyone else numbered among these organizations to assuage mainstream America. By the end of her trial, Davis had so moved members of the jury with her political statements that even those who originally appeared prejudiced against both blacks and Communists were thoroughly convinced of her innocence. Some even considered the trial an impetus to their own political action to fight repression. When Davis spoke at the Boston Globe Book Festival several weeks...
...strength: It encompassed a far wider segment of the American populace than those groups who agreed politically with Davis. Despite President Nixon's assessment that she was one of the country's most dangerous criminals, liberal politicians, establishment professors and previously apolitical pop stars lent their names to Free Angela Davis Committees and fund-raising events. Those who turned out or wrote letters and signed petitions to support Davis cut across class barriers and encompassed a wide spectrum of political groups. These included impressive numbers from various minority groups and white working and middle class citizens...
...charges the government made against Davis were clearly spurious ones. As the trial developed it became obvious that they were merely a facade for political persecution. This in part accounts for the wider base of the Free Angela Davis movement. Still, Angela Davis is a member of the Communist Party USA. She openly denounces the "corporate pigs" and capitalist system that allows them to exploit her brothers and sisters. In 1970, Gov. Ronald Reagan and the UCLA Board of Regents sought to fire her from her teaching post at UCLA and they eventually did not renew her contract because...
...every prison in which Davis was held during her 22 months behind bars her fellow inmates risked solitary confinement and other punishments to show their support for her; thousands gathered outside of the jails in which she was held to chant, "Free Angela Davis"; each time she was moved or brought into court throngs of supporters turned out to demonstrate for her; letters poured into the courts and California officials' offices whenever visitors reported that she was being ill-fed or mistreated by the prison staff. There is no doubt that this tremendous support and the publicity it brought Davis...
Davis was reluctant to write an autobiography, she says, because she feared focus on her personal struggles might detract from the movement for liberation of all oppressed peoples. But Angela Davis: An Autobiography is a moving political statement; one that emphasizes that the same forces that have guided her life have molded the lives of millions of victims of global capitalism and brought them to an epoch that demands collective dedication to the cause of eradicating racism and repression. She insists that her response to these forces has been unexceptional--that her political involvement is "the natural, logical...