Angela Davis:
On June 4, 1972, Angela Davis Was Acquitted Of Complicity In A Plot To Free Three San Quentin Prisoners From A Martin County, California Courthouse.
Four People Were Killed During The Escape Attempt. And Because The Guns Used Were Registered To Davis, The FBI Put Her On Its Ten Most Wanted List.
The FBI Tracked Her Down And Charged Her With Conspiracy, Kidnapping And Murder. Davis Sat In Jail For 16 Months, Awaiting Trial. The Actual Trial Turned Out To Be One Of The Most Infamous Courtroom Dramas In Contemporary American History.
Davis, A Politically Out-Spoken, 'Black Militant,' And Self-Avowed Communist, Had Been Fired Earlier From Her Job As A Professor Of Philosophy At UCLA.
She Twice Ran For Vice President As The Communist Party Candidate And Was A Recipient Of The Lenin Peace Prize.
Today Angela Davis Is A Writer, Teacher And Speaker.
"In Order For Black History To Live, We Must Continue To Breathe Life Into It." -- Hubert Gaddy, Jr.
