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Angela Davis speech: Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library for Social Research Part II, May 7, 1991. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.18.
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Davis discusses interconnections between Gulf War, domestic violence, hate violence, and personal experience with activism and police violence.

Critical Resistance meeting led by Angela Davis, "Critical Resistance HR 1, #1," May 4, 2000. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.54.
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Features special guest and activist Cassandra Shaylor. Group discusses response to Shaylor's article about women prisoners in California, prison guard culture, and philosophical historicism.

Critical Resistance meeting led by Angela Davis, "Critical Resistance HR 1, #1," May 25, 2000. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.58.
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Group discusses visit to Calipatria State Prison, how to educate the public about prison conditions, prisoner rights, and the California Department of Corrections.

Critical Resistance meeting led by Angela Davis, "Critical Resistance HR 1, #2," May 25, 2000. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.59.
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Continuation of Critical Resistance meeting. Group discusses prison reformers working with prison workers, political education for prisoners, and how to best advocate for prison reforms.

Critical Resistance meeting led by Angela Davis, "Critical Resistance HR 1, #2," June 8, 2000. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.64.
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Continuation of Critical Resistance. Group discusses disciplining in school, violence against women, the purpose and structure of Critical Resistance, and writing a group manifesto.

Speech by Angela Davis: International Women's Week at the London Borough of Hackney, March 1986. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.4.
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Davis discusses the 1985 World Conference on Women in Nairobi, Kenya, racism, the importance of class analysis in understanding social issues, the death penalty, capitalism, sterilization and teenage pregnancy among African Americans, interconnections between class, race, and gender, Sojourner Truth, nuclear disarmament, and community elders.

Angela Davis speech: National Association of Women's Centers Conference at Alverno College, July 16, 1988. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.10.
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Davis discusses the role and importance of women's centers; the importance of fostering a multiracial community; connections between racism, classism, and sexism; the history of the women's movement; and the 1988 United States presidential election. Includes various footage of conference participants and events.

Angela Davis speech: The Prison: A Sign of Democracy? at Cornell University, September 18, 2007. Digital

Item — Box: 02Identifier: MC 940, CD-90.12.
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Davis discusses prisons and detention centers, the meaning of democracy, the Iraq War, and civil death. Includes audience questions and answer session.

Woman and incarceration panel featuring Angela Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz: Women and Incarceration, 1994. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.37.
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Includes musical performance by Faith Nolan with an introduction by Angela Davis. Musical performance is followed by panel discussion with students, Faith Nolan, and Angela Davis. Topics include battered women syndrome discourse, child incarceration, three-strikes laws, prisons in California, and immigration.

Angela Davis speech: Violence and apartheid in South Africa at University of Michigan, October 17, 1991. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.25.
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Davis discusses colonialism and genocide of indigenous peoples, Anita Hill and Clarence Thomas, class divisions within the black community, her recent trip and experience in South Africa, South African politics, and capitalism.

Angela Davis speech: "Black Women's Music and Social Consciousness" at Saint Mary's College, December 12, 1994. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.33.
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Davis reads and discusses her book Blues Legacies and Black Feminism: Gertrude Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday. Includes lecture and audience question and answer session on blues music .

Angela Davis speech: "Contemporary Possibilities of Building Community" at Pomona College Part I, February 2, 1996. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.35.
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Davis discusses building communities of political activism, family values, the Million Man March, interlocking systems of oppression, anti-racism, identity politics, victimology, and prisoner abolition.

Angela Davis speech: Women of Wisdom Conference at Seattle Unity Church, Part I, February 14, 1997. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.37.
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Speech by Angela Davis delivered at Seattle Unity Church. Discusses her experience in jail, emergence of African American spiritual practices during slavery, political activism, the prison industrial complex, affirmative action, and women in prison and the prison industrial complex.

Angela Davis speech: "Women's issues and empowerment" at College of Wooster Part I, September 13, 1990. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, T-547.12.
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Davis discusses the Gulf War and its relationship to gender inequality, global issues of inequality, women in activism, the construction of whiteness, racism, hate violence, and racial solidarity. Includes audience question and answer session.

Angela Davis and Dolores Huerta speech: National Organization for Women: California Statewide Convention, May 30, 1987. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.9.
Scope and Contents: Delivered at "Revolutionary Women, 1787-1987" conference. Davis discusses the Iran-Contra affair, democracy, historical revolutionary women, inequality within the women's movement, unemployment, racist violence, and the importance of having a multiracial women's movement. Huerta discusses Hispanic women in the women's movement, H-2A visas, current issues in labor rights for farm workers, pesticide poisoning, corporate agriculture, and the third grape boycott. See also #92.7 for additional...

Angela Davis speech: Mount Olivet Church in New York for Democracy Now benefit, October 19, 2003. Digital

Item — Box: 02Identifier: MC 940, CD-90.8.
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Davis discusses the campaign to free Mumia Abu-Jamal; civil death, anti-immigration policy, the Patriot Act and democracy in the United States; prisons; the death penalty; racism; and education.

Angela Davis speech: "Leadership and Social Responsibility" at Iowa State University, Part I, February 25, 2006. Digital

Item — Box: 02Identifier: MC 940, CD-90.9.
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Delivered during the Big 12 Conference on Black Student Government. Davis discusses racism, black history, prisons, global issues of inequality, surveillance, and United States politics and democracy. Includes audience question and answer session.

Angela Davis speech: "Unlikely Coalitions: Radical Strategies for Anti-Racist Activism" at Smith College, June 13, 1997. Digital

Item Identifier: MC 940, Vt-314.47.
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Davis discusses Geronimo Pratt, Frank "Big Black" Smith, women's prisons, conservatism in the black community, new forms of racism, global capitalism, unfair labor practices, the expansion of the prison system, mass incarceration, the criminalization of people of color, and coalition building between students and prisoners. Includes audience question and answer session.