Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Flash Back. #BlackPanthersParty

This is a picture from Angela Yvonne Davis court date February 23, 1972.
 

Angela Davis was born on January 26, 1944 in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S. Ms. Davis was born to Frank and Sallye Davis. Her both parents were college graduates and worked as school teachers. She mind was such a jewel and she was so smart they tried to shut her down but they couldn't. Angela was one of the most known faces in the 60s and 70s. She was apart of  The Black Panthers Party, which is an organization  (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization active in the United States from 1966 until 1982. The Black Panther Party achieved national and international notoriety through its involvement in the Black Power movement and U.S. politics of the 1960s and 1970s. It was originally founded in Oakland, California by two gentlemen by the names of Huey Newton and Bobby Seale on October 15, 1966; the organization initially set forth a doctrine calling primarily for the protection of African-American neighborhoods from police brutality. Angela has a powerful mind and the government wanted to shut her up and so they pressed charges on her which made appear “America’s Most Wanted”. Across the nation, thousands of people who agreed with her declaration began organizing a liberation movement. In New York City, black writers formed a committee called the Black People in Defense of Angela Davis. By February 1971 more than 200 local committees in the United States and 67 in foreign countries worked to liberate Angela Davis from prison. Thanks, in part, to this support, in 1972 the state released her from county jail. After spending 18 months behind bars, Davis was acquitted of all charges by an all-white jury.


 

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