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From the Archives of The New York Times

 Read a Review of "Blues Legacies

and Black Feminism" (New York
Times Book Review, Mar. 8, 1998)
 Read the First Chapter of "Blues
Legacies and Black Feminism"
 Articles About and By Angela Davis
 Reviews

Felix Beltran, Editora Politica,

1976

ARTICLES ABOUT AND BY ANGELA DAVIS:

 Politics Against Freedom (June 5, 1970)

This Times editorial puts the California Regents' dismissal of Angela Davis in context. Acting under the
influence of Governor Ronald Reagan, the Regents had recently declared their power over permanent faculty
 appointments, a power formerly under control of campus administrators. The Times
argues that the dismissal of Davis showed the dangers of politically motivated decisions
affecting academic freedom.
 California Regents Drop Communist From Faculty  (June 20, 1970)
The California Regents voted to dismiss Angela Davis from her teaching post at UCLA.
She had been fired initially for her membership in the Communist Party. A judge ruled
that this was not grounds for dismissal and the Chancellor moved to reinstate her. The
Regents again voted to remove her, this time for "inflammatory" speeches she had made
that were critical of University policy.
 Angela Davis is Sought in Shooting That Killed Judge on
Coast (August 16, 1970)
Angela Davis was sought in connection with the shooting deaths of four people,
including a judge, in a Marin County courthouse. Guns registered in her name were used
by assailants who took hostages in an attempt to free prisoners who were being tried in
the courthouse.
 F.B.I. Seizes Angela Davis in Motel Here (October 14, 1970)
Davis, who had evaded the law since the murders in Marin, was arrested in Manhattan by
federal agents and prepared for extradition to California.
 The Campaign to Free Angela Davis and Ruchell Magee  (June 27,
1971)
This New York Times Magazine article recounts the story of the shootout at the Marin
County courthouse and the legal and political battle that followed. Davis became the
cause célèbre of American radicals, with the help of the National United Committee to
Free Angela Davis, a vigorous campaign financed and directed by the Communist party.
 Lessons: From Attica to Soledad (October 8, 1971)
Writing from the Marin County jail, Davis argues that prisons imitate the methods of
totalitarianism in their "dehumanizing, desocializing mechanisms." Citing the Attica
prison riots, she says that prisoners have begun to reassert their humanity by their support
for radical activist leaders within the prison walls.
 Witnesses Dispute Testimony Linking Angela Davis to
Shootings (May 23, 1972)
Davis's defense lawyers presented witnesses that accounted for her whereabouts
throughout the week preceding the murders.
 Angela Davis Acquitted on All Charges (June 5, 1972)
Davis, though clearly relieved after the verdict was read, remained defiant, telling a
reporter, "A fair trial would have been no trial at all."
 Scholarly Activist (June 5, 1972)
This profile of Davis examines the relationship between the scholarly background of her
ideals and the street-level radicalism she came to practice.
 Angela Davis Job Debated on Coast (November 16, 1975)
Controversy surrounded Davis's teaching appointment at Claremont, a cluster of six
colleges in southern California. Unable to dismiss her after signing a binding contract, the
colleges imposed strict conditions on her employment after protests from alumni and
benefactors.
 Gus Hall and Angela Davis Lead Communist Party's Ticket for
'80 (November 20, 1979)
Angela Davis, after turning the constitutionality mandated age of 35, became the running
mate of longtime Communist Party leader Gus Hall in his bid for the Presidency.
 Other Women Seeking No. 2 Spot Speak Out (July 29, 1984)
Two-time Vice Presidential candidate Angela Davis bristled when she heard Geraldine
 Ferraro referred to as the "first woman Vice-Presidential candidate." In 1984, Davis was
again in the second spot on the Communist party ticket, although a judge would later rule
that they could not appear on the ballot. Unlike another woman Vice Presidential
candidate, Andrea Gonzalez, who was running on the Socialist Workers Party ticket,
Davis expressed hope that Ferraro would succeed in winning the office, despite their
ideological differences.

REVIEWS:

 "Who is Angela Davis? The Biography of a Revolutionary" by

Regina Nadelson, reviewed by Toni Morrison (1972)
"Who is Regina Nadelson and why is she behaving like Harriet Beecher Stowe, another
simpatico white girl who felt she was privy to the secret of how black revolutionaries got
that way? How Liza could get to the point of actually crossing the ice or how Angela
Davis got to the point of actually joining the Communist party was quite naturally that
white intelligence informed them both; and since Harriet was prey to the scientific racism
of her day she attributed Liza's feistiness to the genetic transference of information via
white blood; but Regina lives in the 20th century and is an enlightened racist who knows
about cultural determinism, which is to say Angela got her courage not from white blood
but white culture."
 "Angela Davis: An Autobiography" (1974)
"[The autobiography is] a strong, idiosyncratic account of her childhood, youth and
growth, and her choice of the Communist party as the agency through which to act. To
the personal narrative she brings such precision and individuality that she reminds us out
of what universal, bitter, private experiences the black movement coalesced in the first
place. Her account of her involvement with the party is so plausible and fresh it turns
back the burden of explanation to those who feel the C. P. is so irrelevant, drenched with
the blood of history, or populated by Government agents, that anyone who would
willingly join it is stupid, unserious, an agent him/her self, or fond of losing."
 "Women, Race and Class" (1982)
"The notion that poor black women are triply oppressed -- by class, race and sex -- is by
now a truism; but the ragged course of those biases in the past and the points at which
they converge today are not easily sorted out or even spotted... [Davis's] approach,
through most of this ambitious volume, is historical... I wish that she had spoken to us
here, as she has so movingly in the past, in a voice less tuned at times to the Communist
Party, more insistently her own. But she is herself a woman of undeniable courage. She
should be heard."

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