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Davis discusses her journey into activism, feminism, the 1985 World Conference on Women, the importance of understanding the interconnectedness of all political issues, and hate violence and racism on college campuses. Includes audience question and answer session.

Scope and Contents: Davis discusses activist movements, poet Pat Parker, masculinist conceptions of history, Malcolm X, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., women in the civil rights movement, racial categories and racialization, apartheid in South Africa, coalition building, President Bill Clinton's attorney general appointment, gay rights, conservative people of color such as Colin Powell and Clarence Thomas, unemployment, socialism and capitalism, and prison abolition. Includes audience question and answer...

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Davis discusses expansion of the prison system, the criminalization of marginalized communities, and prison labor. Includes audience question and answer session.

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Speech by Angela Davis at First Congregational Church of Oakland in California. Event sponsored by KPFA Free Speech Radio, Global Exchange, and Seven Stories press. Davis discusses the "Cuban Five" and political prisoners, the Iraq War, prison reform, prison abolition, the death penalty, the innocence movement, and restorative justice.

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Audience question and answer session with Angela Davis at First Congregational Church of Oakland in California.

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Speech by Angela Davis at First Congregational Church of Oakland in California. Event sponsored by KPFA Free Speech Radio, Global Exchange, and Seven Stories press. Davis discusses the "Cuban Five" and political prisoners, the Iraq War, prison reform, prison abolition, the death penalty, the innocence movement, and restorative justice.

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Introduction by Kum-Kum Bhavnani. Davis discusses her childhood, segregation in the southern United States, interconnections between social and political issues, racism, the U.S. military, and supporting students of color on college campuses. Includes audience questions and answer session. See #93.12 for a copy of the speech.

Scope and Contents: Interview with Cuba Vice President of Commission for Prevention of Crime Ana Expositio by Angela Davis with assistance from Spanish language interpreter for research project on incarcerated women and alternatives to prison. Discussion includes history and purpose of the commission, connection with the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of the Interior, prison labor, and Davis's research project. Davis asks about popular opinions of prisons and types of offenses committed by men and...

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Continuation of interview. Discussion includes description of prisons in the United States, the Netherlands, and United Nations standard minimum rules for the treatment of prisoners. In English and Spanish.

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Davis discusses liberty, justice, and the root causes of social inequality at a library in Oakland, California.

Scope and Contents: Davis discusses sexism within activist movements, racism within the women's movement, violence against women, interconnections between social and political issues, the Ronald Reagan administration, the anti-abortion movement, and sterilization in Puerto Rico. Audio and video cutout midway through speech due to interruption from anti-abortion protestors. Post-interruption Davis discusses new reproductive technologies and their implications, the criminalization of abortion, and infant...

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Davis discusses socio-political identities and how they can inhibit coalition building; activism in the 1990's; racism in anti-immigration, anti-crime, and anti-welfare movements; violence against women; imprisonment; and affirmative action. Includes audience question and answer session.

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Davis discusses the Gulf War, the social construction of motherhood within racist ideology, slavery, abortion, unemployment, sterilization, white collar crime, criminalization, homophobia, healthcare, childcare, and Christopher Columbus. Includes audience question and answer session.

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Davis discusses the meaning of being radical, the history of slavery, the marginalization of black women in history, Anita Hill, Johnetta Cole, black women in government, mass incarceration, and the criminalization of African Americans.

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Lecture on the reproductive rights of incarcerated women. Davis discusses the history women's prisons, the cult of domesticity, teenage pregnancy, and the criminalization of women's sexuality.

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Davis discusses the history of blues, a Marxist approach to understanding art, the Harlem Renaissance, and music and work. Delivered in San Francisco, California.

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Davis discusses affirmative action, racism violence, Ronald Reagan and corporate interest, connections between racism and sexism, solidarity, antisemitism, the death penalty, police brutality, and grassroots movements. Includes audience question and answer session.

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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Introduction by writer Evelyn C. White. Davis discusses apartheid and violence in South Africa, hate violence in the United States, and solidarity. Includes audience question and answer session. See #94.10 for additional materials.

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Davis discusses how crime, immigration, and welfare were used as issues during the 1992 United States presidential election to define categories of normality and pathology. Davis also discusses Newt Gingrich, Bill Clinton, popular books on racial intelligence, how to critically engage in politics, racism, and capitalism. Includes audience question and answer session. See #97.14 for related materials.

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...

Scope and Contents: Lecture by Angela Davis titled "The Anti-Rape Movement and the Struggle Against Racism" delivered for the Rape Education and Prevention series. Aired on television show "Work In Progress" as community programming on Southwestern Cable TV San Diego. Davis discusses the history of women's liberation movement, victim blaming, myths about rape, Joan Little, why men rape, sexual assault of black women, Delbert Tibbs, racism, classicism, Ronald Reagan, abortion, the connection between socialism...

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Davis discusses feminist Kate Millett, the development of women's prisons, civil death, expanding prison populations, her personal experience in prison, prison abolition, and slavery. Includes audience question and answer session.

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Davis discusses the history of African Americans and imprisonment and the military industrial complex. Includes audience question and answer session. See #104.11 and #213F+B.12 for related materials.

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...