As you’re watching Shola Lynch’s Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners, you should think about and consider recent discussions about other black women activists in the black freedom struggle, especially black women involved in leftist politics and the Community Party.
Below are two newspaper sources on Angela Davis from the 1970s:
Los Angeles police Tuesday said weapons similar to that description and belonging to Miss Davis and had been seized in a raid on a Black Panther Headquarters about two months ago.”
“Angela Davis Implicated in San Rafael Shootout” Los Angeles Sentinel, August 13, 1970
“Miss Davis, who had shown little emotion through the 12 weeks of the trial, broke into sobs after the last verdict had been read. ‘This is the happiest day of my life,’ she later exclaimed.”
Earl Caldwell, “Angela Davis Acquitted on All” New York Times, June 5, 1972, 1.