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Angela Davis interviews musician Holly Near, September 20, 1984. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.2.
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Davis and Near discuss the Free The Army Tour, the feminist movement, sexism, and blues traditions within the women's music movement.

Angela Davis speech: Women, Race, and Class, ca.1986. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.7.
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Davis discusses women in the civil rights movement, her activism in the 1960's and 1970's, sexism, racism in the women's movement, apartheid in South Africa, Sandra Day O'Connor, abortion, sterilization, and interconnections between political movements, nuclear disarmament, the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Includes audience question and answer session.

Angela Davis speech at New Haven rally, April 21, 1979. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 703: T-452: Vt-185: CD-74, T-452.180.
Scope and Contents: Subseries A, Audio, 1981-2007 (#T-452.1 - T-452.179, CD-74.1) includes lectures for "Sexuality and Legality," "Sex Equality," and "Sex Discrimination" classes; two public debates with Phyllis Schlafly; testimonies for the Antipornography Civil Rights Ordinance during the 1983 Minneapolis city council public hearings and 1985 Los Angeles Women's Commission hearings; symposium on sexual harassment at Yale Law School, organized in honor of the 20th anniversary of...

Book. Angela Davis: An Autobiography press release, 1975 Digital

Item — Box: 28Identifier: MC 940, 28.13.
Scope and Contents: Series III, WRITINGS, 1968-2012 (inclusive), 1991-2000 (bulk) (#18.21-46.6, 200FB.9, 204F+B.1-204F+B.3), contains administrative correspondence and contracts relating to Davis's published writings; and drafts of her articles, essays, papers, and reviews. Handwritten and typed drafts of Davis's books: Angela Davis: An Autobiography, The Angela Y. Davis Reader, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism; ...

Angela Davis speech: University of Kentucky, Lexington, November 5, 1999. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.57.
Scope and Contents: Includes musical performance by Black Voices student choir and poetry performance by Nikky Finney. Speech on desegregation, affirmative action, and the prison industrial complex. Davis discusses the expansion of the punishment industry, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the history of prisons, women's prisons, prison workers, civil death, structural racism, corporate globalization, unemployment, the death penalty, her imprisonment and trial, and Roger L. McAfee. Includes audience question and answer session....

Angela Davis speech: University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 16, 1999. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.58.
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Speech by Angela Davis at the Wisconsin Union Theater on the death penalty and its implications. Davis discusses Mumia Abu-Jamal, the prison-industrial complex, her trial, mass incarceration, Manny Babbitt, prison history, prisoner abuse, sweatshops and corporate exploitation, the global expansion of the prison industry, prison abolition, and the connections between punishment, gender, race, and class. Includes audience question and answer session.

Angela Davis interview, The Arsenio Hall Show, March 9, 1989. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.13.
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Partial episode of television talk show featuring Angela Davis promoting her new book "Woman, Culture, and Politics." Video cuts to Davis interview. Davis discusses her public image, her activism, communism, racism within the women's movement, and rap music.

Angela Davis interview, "Sonya Live in L.A.," March 10, 1989. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.14.
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Davis discusses the current state of political activism, president George W. Bush, lessons she's learned as an activist, feminist movements in the Middle East, women's equality, communism, and her book Women, Race, and Class. Includes viewer phone calls, television commercials, and brief newscast.

Interview with Angela Davis, "Conversation with Ed Gordan," ca.1990. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.22.
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Davis discusses how she became an activist, her continued relevance among younger generations, public perception of her, leadership and classicism in the African American community, racism, and her reception at the NAACP Image Awards.

Angela Davis speech: Ithaca College, African American History Month, 1993. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.32.
Scope and Contents: Davis discusses women in the civil rights movement and Black Power Movement (Rosa Parks, Ella Baker, Ruby Doris Robinson, Lorraine Hansberry, Elizabeth Martinez, Maria Varela); her memory of the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church explosion in Birmingham, Alabama; connections between social issues; media depictions of the relationship between African Americans and Koreans; violence against women; unemployment; creating new forms of activism; "women of color" as a political expression. Includes...

Angela Davis and Nkenge Zola radio show, March 26, 1998. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.45.
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WDET FM radio program with host Nkenge Zola and Angela Davis. Davis discusses black women in blues music and the prison industrial complex.

CBC Radio-Canada interview with Angela Davis, February 15, 1999. Digital

Item — Box: 02Identifier: MC 940, CD-90.2.
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Davis discusses the prison industrial complex and prison abolition on program "Le Monde Aujourd'hui." Interview in French.

[Letters to Angela Davis from piano player Bill Crosby], 1970-1971 Digital

Item — Box: 54Identifier: MC 940, 54.1-54.3.
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...

[Coalition to Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners newsletter], 1971 Digital

Item — Box: 57Identifier: MC 940, 57.2.
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...

A Conversation with Amiri Baraka and Angela Davis, November 21, 1997. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.49.
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Video starts in the middle of a poetry performances. Performances are followed by moderated conversation between Angela Davis and writer Amiri Baraka. They discuss activist movements, imperialism, capitalism, activist strategies. Includes audience question and answer session. See #105.2 for additional event materials.

ARD German Television interview with Angela Davis: edited, January 26, 1994. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.34.
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Edited biographical feature and interview. Includes archival footage of Angela Davis in the 1970's. Includes four cuts of the program. First two edits of the program are narrated in German with Davis dubbed in German. Third edit of the program is narrated in German with Davis interview in English.

"A Second Look - Show 313" featuring Angela Davis, November 26, 2006. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.63.
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Episode of Fox television morning show about the history of the Black Panther Party. Includes archival footage from the 1970s and interviews with former Black Panther David Hilliard, the Alameda County sheriff, Eldridge Cleaver, Angela Davis, and Ericka Huggins. Also includes coverage of Huey P. Newton's funeral. Davis discusses media representations of the Black Panther Party.

"Poem to Angela Davis - Voice of Nicolás Guillén," November 19, 1982. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.143.
Scope and Contents: Series XII, AUDIOVISUAL, ca.1971-2016, undated (T-547.1-T-547.148, DVD-143.1-DVD-143.38, CD-90.1-CD-90.12, Vt-314.1-Vt-314.65, MP-84.1-MP-84.2, Phon-75.1-Phon-75.5), includes audiotapes, CDs, DVDs, videotapes, motion pictures, and phonograph records. This series contains speeches, lectures, and interviews delivered by Angela Davis at schools, conferences, and other events in the United States and abroad. Also includes recordings of Critical Resistance meeting proceedings and Davis's 1970s...

Angela Davis and Linda Chavez speech: Hamline University, September 24, 1992. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.27.
Scope and Contents: Speeches by Angela Davis and Linda Chavez (former director of the White House Office of Public Liaison under United States President Ronald Reagan) on the theme "Justice for whom?." Chavez discusses institutional racism, the 1991 Rodney King police officer trial, the dangers of condemning the United States justice system, black-on-black crime, violent crime rates, and dissolution of the black family. Davis discusses perceived neutrality of the justice system, refutes family structure as a...