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BECAUSE THE same doubt, within by the shared horror of white ultraviolence in Birmingham (and later in half-a-hundred Southern towns) drove both Angela Davis and SCLC to more politicized postures during the violent years of the middle and late '60s, the black preachers of SCLC have a special, protective collection for Angela. When, after the shoot-out at San Rafael, she was hunted down handcuffed, and held on capital charges, it was SCLC, perhaps more than any other organization, that came to her rescue...
...doubts and misgivings of many of the 500 delegates were not so easily calmed. Over the four years since King's death, SCLC has endured a steady attrition not limited only to the conference's financial resources. The size of the organization's paid staff has been cut in half, as the annual operating budget has diminished from $2 million in the peak years of 1967 and 1968 to $600,000 this year. Moreover, in that time, SCLC has also lost several of its top staffers, including Jesse Jackson, who left the organization last year to form his own group...
Nonetheless, broke, divided and uncertain. SCLC is still a formidable organization, determined to carry on. As one of the delegates in Dallas put it. "We're black and we're proud and we're broke, but gutsy and we'll survive...
...many ways, Angela Davis's "homecoming" at the SCLC convention is testimony to the conference's enduring strength, for as Angela herself said, she would not have won her freedom without the help of SCLC. But, equally important is the fact that had it not been for SCLC. Angela Davis might not have undergone the political development that led her to the point where she needed defending...
...fact, there were many black people, particularly in the Deep South, who were entertaining doubts that the moral persuasion of non-violent demonstrations would be sufficient torque to bring success to the movement. Out of this doubt evolved the decisions by SCLC. SNCC, and other Southern-based groups to become involved in more direct political action. Out of this doubt also came Angela Davis's own conversion to Marxian, and her ultimate embracement of the Communist Party...