Angela Davis
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Angela Yvonne Davis is an American Marxist feminist political activist, philosopher, academic, author and social theorist. She is Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies and History of Con
Davis in 1974
Davis (center, without glasses) enters Royce Hall with Kendra Alexander at UCLA for her first lecture, October 1969
Protest against the Vietnam War, 1970
1971 poster by Rupert García urging freedom for political prisoners and depicting Angela Davis
Jonathan P. Jackson
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Jonathan Peter Jackson was an American militant activist who died of gunshot wounds sustained during an armed invasion of the Marin County Civic Center. The action was initiated to demand the freedom
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…and charged with the killing of a prison guard at Soledad Prison. On August 7, 1970, heavily armed 17-year-old African-American high-school student Jonathan Jackson, whose brother was George Jackson, one of the three Soledad Brothers, gained control of a courtroom in Marin County, California. He armed the Black…
Jackson during a protest in support of the Soledad Brothers