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[Letters sent to Angela Davis in jail], 1970 Digital

Item — Box: 58Identifier: MC 940, 58.7.
Scope and Contents: Subseries D, General trial files, 1970-1992 (#56.10-60.12, 205FB.6-205FB.10, 206F+B.1-206F+B.4, 208F+B.1-208F+B.9, 209F+B.1-209F+B.5, 210F+B.1-210F+B.3, 211F+B.1-211F+B.4, 212F+B.1-212F+B.4, 202OB.15-202OB.16, 207OB.1-207OB.10, 220SB.1, 222SB.1, 223OB-225OB, 207OB), includes clippings, letters to Davis (including some with her carbon responses), fliers, Davis's FBI wanted poster, letters and printed/published material from Committees to Free Angela from all over the United States including...

[Letters to Angela Davis from the Netherlands], 1971 Digital

Item — Box: 53Identifier: MC 940, 53.10.
Scope and Contents: Subseries C, Letters sent to Marin County jail, 1970-1973 (#52.8-56.9, 205FB.4-205FB.5, 204F+B.12), includes both letters of solidarity and hate mail sent to Davis while she was incarcerated at the Marin County jail - some of the letters are also addressed to Captain Harvey Teague, chief of Marin County police, and/or to other law officials (Deputy Sheriff Gossett, Judge Warren McQuire). These letters were not delivered to Davis at the time she was in the Marin County jail. They were...

Angela Davis interview, Good Morning Bay Area, 1989. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.16.
Scope and Contents:

Segment of KGO-TV talk show featuring guest Angela Davis and lawyer James Garrett. Davis discusses Teresa Jeffrey Clark and John Clark who were arrested after falsely calling in sick to work, the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Oppression, discriminatory police practices, community organizing.

Angela Davis speech: Kenyon College, November 1, 1990. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.21.
Scope and Contents:

Speech on the persistence of racism in academia. Davis discusses her experience at Brandeis University, creating an inclusive curriculum, affirmative action, internalized racism, racial and ethnic linguistic terms, Black Studies programs, elitism, classicism, teaching in prisons, and the cocaine drug epidemic. Includes audience question and answer session.

Angela Davis speech: Bates College, January 16, 1991. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.23.
Scope and Contents: Speech on gender, race, and class and how these concepts relate to the Gulf War. Davis discusses the United States military; a demonstration against the Gulf War in San Francisco, California; United States imperialism; apartheid in South Africa; British imperialism, Kuwait and Iraq; people of color and working class people in the military; Colin Powell; criminalization; the Vietnam War; the importance of building a multiracial and multicultural activist movement; people of color in...

Angela Davis interviews artist Ice Cube, ca.1991. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.27.
Scope and Contents:

Discussion topics include generational differences between African Americans, sexist language in hip hop, reclaiming racial slurs, Ice Cube's album "Death Certificate," hip hop culture, black women in activism, racial stereotypes, musical influences, depiction of African Americans in media, drug epidemic, police violence, African American leaders, apartheid in South Africa, and other issues affecting the African American community.

Angela Davis speech: Women's issues and activism, 1972. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.1.
Scope and Contents:

Davis advocates for black women solidarity with oppressed women all over the world and discusses the struggles of black women in the United States, women in third world countries, working class people, and critiques the women's movement in the United States.

Angela Davis Defense Committee radio interview, ca.1970. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, CD-90.1.
Scope and Contents:

Brief remarks by the Angela Davis Defense Committee on the murder of George Jackson and the campaign to free Angela Davis.

Angela Davis speech: Black communist event, ca.1987. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.8.
Scope and Contents:

Davis discusses economic and political inequality in the United States, the politics of Ronald Reagan, unemployment, racism, sexism and reproductive rights, corporate monopolies and labor rights, the nomination of Robert Bork to the United States Supreme Court, and South Africa. Davis's speech is followed by a speech by the president of the event organization about Angela Davis.

WBAI 99.5 FM interview with Angela Davis and Eisa Davis, June 26, 2003. Digital

Item — Box: 02Identifier: MC 940, CD-90.5.
Scope and Contents:

Davis discusses her book Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003). Also includes interview with playwright Eisa Davis about her play "Angela's Mixtape" and her experience as an artist and actress.

[Letters to Angela Davis from the United States], 1971 Digital

Item — Box: 54Identifier: MC 940, 54.10-54.11.
Scope and Contents: Subseries C, Letters sent to Marin County jail, 1970-1973 (#52.8-56.9, 205FB.4-205FB.5, 204F+B.12), includes both letters of solidarity and hate mail sent to Davis while she was incarcerated at the Marin County jail - some of the letters are also addressed to Captain Harvey Teague, chief of Marin County police, and/or to other law officials (Deputy Sheriff Gossett, Judge Warren McQuire). These letters were not delivered to Davis at the time she was in the Marin County jail. They were...

[Letters to Angela Davis from the United States], undated Digital

Item — Box: 54Identifier: MC 940, 54.12.
Scope and Contents: Subseries C, Letters sent to Marin County jail, 1970-1973 (#52.8-56.9, 205FB.4-205FB.5, 204F+B.12), includes both letters of solidarity and hate mail sent to Davis while she was incarcerated at the Marin County jail - some of the letters are also addressed to Captain Harvey Teague, chief of Marin County police, and/or to other law officials (Deputy Sheriff Gossett, Judge Warren McQuire). These letters were not delivered to Davis at the time she was in the Marin County jail. They were...

[Letters to Angela Davis from West Germany], 1971-1973 Digital

Item — Box: 55Identifier: MC 940, 55.3.
Scope and Contents: Subseries C, Letters sent to Marin County jail, 1970-1973 (#52.8-56.9, 205FB.4-205FB.5, 204F+B.12), includes both letters of solidarity and hate mail sent to Davis while she was incarcerated at the Marin County jail - some of the letters are also addressed to Captain Harvey Teague, chief of Marin County police, and/or to other law officials (Deputy Sheriff Gossett, Judge Warren McQuire). These letters were not delivered to Davis at the time she was in the Marin County jail. They were...

[Statements from Angela Davis from Marin County Jail], 1971 Digital

Item — Box: 60Identifier: MC 940, 60.4.
Scope and Contents: Subseries D, General trial files, 1970-1992 (#56.10-60.12, 205FB.6-205FB.10, 206F+B.1-206F+B.4, 208F+B.1-208F+B.9, 209F+B.1-209F+B.5, 210F+B.1-210F+B.3, 211F+B.1-211F+B.4, 212F+B.1-212F+B.4, 202OB.15-202OB.16, 207OB.1-207OB.10, 220SB.1, 222SB.1, 223OB-225OB, 207OB), includes clippings, letters to Davis (including some with her carbon responses), fliers, Davis's FBI wanted poster, letters and printed/published material from Committees to Free Angela from all over the United States including...

Worship Service, Angela Davis Defense Committee, November 14, 1971. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.132.
Scope and Contents:

Ecumenical worship service and informational forum sponsored by the United East Oakland Clergy. Includes presentation by the Angela Davis Defense Committee.

Angela Davis speech: Report from Harlem, September 9, 1994. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.32.
Scope and Contents:

Alternative Radio program "Report from Harlem" recorded at the Dempsey Center in Harlem, New York. Davis discusses issues faced by the African American community in Harlem including poverty, racism, the depiction of African Americans in media, the Bill Clinton administration, the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, mass incarceration, sexual harassment, and racism.