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Angela Davis’ First Interview After Acquittal
In 1972, a California jury declared Angela Davis innocent of murder, kidnapping, and criminal conspiracy related to a San Rafael courtroom shootout. At the time, the American political activist and philosophy professor was an active member of the Communist Party and the Black Panther Party. Her arrest sparked an international “Free Angela Davis” movement.
After her acquittal, Angela Davis makes her first national television appearance in an exclusive interview in 1972 with THIRTEEN’s Black Journal, hosted by Tony Brown. Black Journal was a monthly series produced for, about, and – to a large extent – by Black Americans.
Davis first addresses the importance of having posted bail before her trial.
Brown asks her to define what she considers a “political prisoner,” and what she means by the revolution, which she sees as necessary in America. She describes racism as a divisive force among workers to prevent revolution.
She refutes the argument of white media and institutions that her innocent verdict by an all-white jury and relatively short trial are signs that the justice system works for Black people.
Her goal is to continue the momentum that the Free Angela Davis movement had built to free “brothers and sisters” like herself.
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