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Angela Davis Release Speech [mp3]
Angela Davis, African-American leader, scholar, and prison abolitionist. She was charged in connection with events at the Marin Courthouse on August 7, 1970. this is from her first statement after her acquittal.
Conspiracy Against Angela Exposed
Flyer issued by the L.A. Committee to Free Angela Davis, which comments on the excessive expense of time and government money in the pursuit of putting together a case to convict Angela Davis of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. Outlines the prosecutor's failure to prove his case.
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
Angela Davis's foundational essay collection on political prisoners, prisons, and Black liberation.
Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's Political Prisoners Write on Life, Liberation, and Rebellion
2003 anthology (Rowman & Littlefield) edited by political philosopher Joy James. Collects essays, letters, and theoretical writings from incarcerated U.S. political prisoners across the Black liberation, Puerto Rican independence, American Indian Movement, white anti-imperialist, and Black-feminist generations — including Mumia Abu-Jamal, Angela Davis, Georg...
Lectures on Liberation
Collection of transcripts from Angela Davis's initial lectures for "Recurring Philosophical Themes in Black Literature," her first course at UCLA taught during the Fall Quarter of 1969. Lectures outline the causes and perpetuation of oppression. They also deal with the psychological nature of the oppressor and the oppressed, the process by which the latter b...
On Trial: Angela Davis or America?
Booklet surrounding Angela Davis's imprisonment and trial, where she was convicted of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. Includes an introduction by Ossie Davis, excerpts from two speeches--"I Bring An Indictment Against the American System" by Reverend Ralph Abernathy and "The Case Must be Dismissed" by Attorney John J. Abt--and an article, "In Defense of...