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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.

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Davis discusses international women's struggles, the importance of forming transnational radical movements, the prison industrial complex, capitalism, United States militarism and law enforcement, interconnections between different issues of inequality, and political prisoners.

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Group plans a handbook on crime, prisons, and incarceration.

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Second half of Critical Resistance meeting. Participants discuss the representation of crime in media, victim's rights, and the shift from prison rehabilitation to retribution.

Scope and Contents: Part I: Davis discusses her childhood, family, early experiences with racism, her experience at Elisabeth Irwin High School, early activism and travel abroad, and recognizing the groups of people who contributed to social movements. Part II: Davis discusses campaign to free political prisoners, the Soledad Brothers, Jonathan Jackson, her arrest and trail, the Free Angela Davis campaign, scholarship and activism around prisons, and Critical Resistance. Davis also answers audience...

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Davis discusses the campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal and the prison industrial complex. In French.

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: 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...

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Continuation of audience question and answer session during the Annual Walter Rodney Memorial Lecture delivered by Angela Davis.

Scope and Contents: Davis discusses women's activism through the lens of her personal journey as an activist. She discusses her article "Afro Images: Politics, Fashion, and Nostalgia," representations of activism, coded racial language, differences between activism in the 1960s and activism in the 1990s, criminalization of drug-use, and her petition against the dismissal of Joycelyn Elders from the position of United States Surgeon General. Includes audience question and answer session. Includes audience...

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Conversation about Davis's and Bhavnani's collaborative project on incarcerated women. They discuss the collaboration process, interviewing incarcerated women, interpersonal dynamics, learning moments, what's been working, and what can be improved.

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Davis discusses racism in the criminal justice system, decriminalization, anti-immigration policy, and prison abolition .

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Annual Walter Rodney Memorial Lecture delivered by Angela Davis for the Jeannette K. Watson Distinguished Visiting Professorship in the Humanities about contemporary feminism and the legacy of Malcolm X. Davis discusses the male supremacist ramifications of black nationalism and the commodification of Malcolm X. Includes audience question and answer session.

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Continuation of audience question and answer session during the Annual Walter Rodney Memorial Lecture delivered by Angela Davis.

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Conference introduction by historian Martin E. Jay. Davis discusses the legacy of philosopher Herbert Marcuse.

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Group critiques the book The Oxford History of the Prison: The Practice of Punishment in Western Society and its lack of discussion on the relationship between prisons and the state, race, and gender. Participants also discuss creating educational materials on crime and incarceration.

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Documentary show hosted by Susan Taylor and Felipe Luciano. Includes segment on women in jazz, interview with Angela Davis, and interview with actress Phylicia Rashad. Davis discusses the black power movement, how she has changed since the 1970's, apartheid in South Africa, and the responsibility of black people to organize. Includes clips of Angela Davis speeches and 10 second episode promo.

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Includes interviews with Davis's lawyer Howard Moore, articles about solidarity protests, and articles about controversial statements from fellow prisoner Ruchell Magee.

Scope and Contents: Davis discusses the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, activist organizations, the campaign against affirmative action, media representation and racism, Rodney King, conservatism people of color, political issues and party affiliation, sustained activism, the ineffectiveness of single issue campaigns, three-strikes laws, the expansion of the prison industry, criminalization of black men, and capitalism. Includes audience announcements and audience question and answer...

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Davis discusses affirmative action in California, conservative people of color, the politics of nostalgia, family values, the Million Man March, ways in which women of color formations can create new strategies for community building and empowerment, interconnections between political issues, the expansion of the prison industry, anti-racism, and victimization. Includes audience question and answer session. See #101.3 for related materials.

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Episode of KTOP 10 Oakland Government Access television program on the Prison Industrial Complex featuring Angela Davis. Davis discusses mass incarceration, Critical Resistance, private prisons, local prison abolition events, the criminalization of non-violent acts, the imprisonment of immigrants, and the defunding of educational and welfare programs. Includes commercials.

Scope and Contents: Conference panel organized by A.L. Anderson and D.L. Klein. Features Angela Davis as panel discussant via satellite. Anderson presents on the Garifuna indigenous people of Guatemala, political participation, and multicultural democracy. Marie "Keta" Miranda presents on youth and the public sphere in Oakland, California. Following participant presents on transnational women's networks in northern Europe. Hilary Kahn discusses collaborations of time and difference in Guatemala. Debbie Klein...

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Conference opening ceremony and speech by Angela Davis titled " Davis discusses the rise in political conscious of the black gay and lesbian community, gay men and lesbians in the military, United States militarism, sexism, anti-gay and lesbian legislation, identity politics, homophobia in African American communities, AIDS and HIV, and racism.

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Conversation about Davis's and Bhavnani's collaborative project on incarcerated women. They discuss approaches to interviewing women prisoners, topics the women have discussed during group interviews, and how those discussion can be translated into prison alternatives.