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Interview with Angela Davis on Trinidad and Tobago Television show. Davis discusses her autobiography, the movement to free her from jail, influence from Herbert Marcuse, communism, solidarity with African political struggles such as apartheid, women's equality, her book Women, Race, and Class, musician Mighty Sparrow, and Walter Rodney.  Includes clips from Angela Davis speech on Reaganism.

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1st Plenary Session of conference at Spelman College. Moderated by Julie Wade. Includes addresses by Johnnetta Cole, C. Delores Tucker, Byllye Avery, and Angela Davis. Davis discusses the history of the National Association of Colored Women's Clubs; solidarity among dispossessed people; African Americans in the women's movement; unemployment; and racist, sexist, and homophobic violence.

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Phone interview with Angela Davis by Kenny McReynolds on Sunday Morning Live radio show. Discusses participation in the 24th Convention for the Communist Party of the United States of America, economic roots of racism, the politics of Ronald Reagan, the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and communism. Includes listener questions..

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Davis discusses the power of words, history of terms used to refer to African Americans, the use slurs for disenfranchised groups, assimilation, campus activism at San Francisco State University, and student activism in the United States, hate violence, racism, misogyny, and international inequality. Includes audience question and answer session.

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Continuation of audience question and answer session with Angela Davis on political oppression and change, democracy, and education.

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Tape begins mid-speech. Speech at protest and fundraiser during Oka, Quebec land dispute between the Mohawk people and the Canadian government. Davis discusses women, racism and misogyny in the Gulf War; violence against the Mohawk people; mass incarceration of African Americans in the United States; and the struggles of people of color in the United States.

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...

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Angela Davis reads Jordan's "Black English, White English" and from His Own Where. Jordan reads from Alice Walker's The Color Purple and discusses censorship. Other poets read.

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Angela Davis reads Jordan's "Black English, White English" and from His Own Where. Jordan reads from Alice Walker's The Color Purple and discusses censorship. Other poets read.

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...

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...

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...

Scope and Contents: Series IV, YOUNG SISTERS FOR JUSTICE, 1997-2009, undated (#29.17-32.5, E.5-E.16), contains materials related to Young Sisters for Justice, a paid internship program which integrates young women and teenagers into the Boston Women's Fund grant making decisions. The series includes meeting minutes and agendas, work plans, budgets, program applications, participant evaluations, pamphlets, flyers, publications, and transcripts from an oral history project on women activists completed by the...

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...

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Includes "National Defense Bulletin," and press releases.

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...

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Davis discusses the war on drugs, political and social movements since the 1970s, Marxism, increasing racism and xenophobia in former European socialist countries, the interconnections between social issues, the women's movement, her musical preferences, the Communist Party, social problems in the United States, and children's literature. Includes B-roll footage of Angela Davis and Fania Davis at home and a Davis family photograph.

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Student question and answer session with Angela Davis and Linda Chavez.

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Alternative Radio program recording of "The Prison Industrial Complex" lecture at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Introduction by Alphine Jefferson. Davis discusses the history of Martin Luther King Jr., Day, political discourse around the Black family, employment among African Americans, capitalism, war industry, structural inequality, Ronald Reagan, racist violence, police violence, apartheid in South Africa, for-profit prisons, the death penalty, political prisoners, and international revolutions. Includes audience question and answer session.

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...

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Includes organization list of supporters, notes, and participant lists.

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...

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Newscast on the international state of communism and communism in the United States. Includes interviews with Angela Davis, a columnist for Soviet newspaper Izvestia, and writer Alexander Coburn. Includes commercials.

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Irish human rights activist Brian J. Dooley interviews Angela Davis. Includes discussion of Irish civil rights leader Bernadette Devlin McAliskey's February 1971 visit to Davis in jail, historical ties between Irish and African American activists, Davis's trip to Northern Ireland for Northern Ireland Women's Rights Organization event, military presence in Northern Ireland, and portrayal of the Black Panther Party in media.