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Certainly, SCLC came quicker and brought more than any other major civil rights group. The fact that Angela Davis is a Communist did much to slacken the response of the NAACP and the Urban League. Both organizations receive government funds, and it wouldn't look good to the boys back at the Bureau of the Budget to see a sizeable contribution to Angela's defense fund in their annual audit. So, with their financial deficits of half-a-million dollars each that future government grants could do a lot to cure, the Urban League and the NAACP were forced...
...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...