Word: sclc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SCLC, because it has never received direct Federal funding, was under no such constraints. Without inhibition, they gave the list of their top contributors to the Angela Davis Defense Committee, and throughout the 19 months of her imprisonment, solicited these sources in her behalf. SCLC also collaborated with the defense committee in securing the services of Howard Moore as Angela's chief counsel...
...COURSE there were other organizations involved in the defense, most noticeably the Communist Party, and there seems to have been some friction, particularly with the CPUSA. "They wanted to sellher out, just like they did with the Scottsboro boys," says an SCLC old timer. "But we wouldn't let them...
...notion seems to have gotten into the heads of several people, inside and outside SCLC, that the Communists wanted Angela Davis to be convicted so they could make the most use of her as a proof of the unscrupulousness of American government. Precisely how this notion gained currency is somewhat obscure, but Angela Davis denies that it has any validity, as do several top SCLC staffers. Far from feeling that the interaction between C.P. and SCLC officials further alienated the two groups, she feels that their cooperation in her defense did much to bring them together...
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...
...attorney, Howard Moore, Hosea Williams and several other SCLC staffers were there to meet her. They had been waiting for more than two hours, because the airline had lost the tickets the travel-agency had booked for her and her two travelling companions several weeks before. But, they had not waited alone. Several local reporters, as well as the guy from the newsmagazine had waited with them. There was also a little black man in a dapperly cut brown sult, wearing a Tyrolean hat and carrying a camera with a long zoom list. The little men was an intelligence detective...