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...MEMBER of the Communist Party. Angela Davis herself has been quite regular in supporting these revolutions and the world-wide activities of the Communist Party in general. She has even defended the policies of the CPUSSR from attacks by those upset by reports of the persecution of Soviet Jews. While in Boston to stump for Edward Teixeira, the unsuccessful C.P. candidate for state representative from Wand 14 Angela explained that the situation of Jews in Russia "has been totally blown out of proportion by the bourgeois press because they're going to do everything they can to discredit socialism...
However, there are some, whites in particular, who are distressed by Angela's dogmatic allegiance to the C.P.'s party line. In fact, they find it incomprehensible that a woman of such adventurous intelligence would become involved in the CPUSA, and, once a member, would condone actions like the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia or give so facilely conspiratorial an explanation for the reports of Soviet oppression of Jews and dissidents. But, actually, Angela is but the last in a series of black intellectuals to become prominently identified with the C.P. Like DuBois, Wright, and Robeson before her, she seems...
Whether or and the cooperation of SCLC and the Communist Party will result in any formal, lasting alliance remains to be more However, it is clear that Angela herself has reached a working unity with SCLC, While in prison, she decided that the was going to abandon teaching to devote herself, full-time to the freeing of political prisoners. At the conclusion of her present tour of the country to thank the people in various cities who worked in her behalf, she intends to return to the West Coast and organize a national apparatus to work for the release...
...PEOPLE had recognized her on the plane from Birmingham. They had seen the large, rounded swell of Afro crowning the handsome, high-cheeked face, and then they had looked closer. It was unmistakably she. "That's Angela Davis," one of them said. "We would recognize her anywhere...
...Angela greeted Howard Moore-whom she had not seen since the trial--most warmly of all. She kissed Hosea Williams--the shortly, scrappy preacher who led the bloody march to Pettus Bridge at Selma--and let him slide a blacksmith's arm around her. But when she saw Howard Moore, she slipped away from Hosea and, letting her clipboard fall, wrapped her arms around her attorney's neck. "Oh. Howard," she said as she hugged him. Lucky Howard...