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(U.S. Counterculture) Wanted By The FBI - Interstate Flight - Murder, Kidnapping ANGELA YVONNE DAVIS
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(U.S. Counterculture) Wanted By The FBI - Interstate Flight - Murder, Kidnapping ANGELA YVONNE DAVIS, August 18, 1970
"ANGELA DAVIS IS WANTED ON KIDNAPING AND MURDER CHARGES GROWING OUT OF AN ABDUCTION AND SHOOTING IN MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, ON AUGUST 7, 1970. SHE ALLEGEDLY HAS PURCHASED SEVERAL GUNS IN THE PAST. CONSIDER POSSIBLY ARMED AND DANGEROUS".
Born in Birmingham, Alabama where she attended a segregated Black school, she grew up in "Dynamite Hill", a neighborhood that had gained that nickname for the number of dynamite bombings that had happened to drive out middle class blacks that had tried to live in the area. But it was the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that had galvanized something deep within her world view, as she personally knew each of the girls killed, sometimes her and her mother gave them rides to school. The FBI investigated this incident, identified suspects, but failed to prosecute and refused to disclose evidence found to state or local police. This may be Angela Davis' first proximity to the work of the FBI, but in time its focus would turn towards her, as she became involved with social groups that had some Communist support. She would be watched. Later after travel and studying abroad, she was finishing post graduate work, but was unable to receive her completed doctorate from the University of California, San Diego, as the FBI confiscated her manuscripts.
The incident for which the FBI created this wanted poster was related to guns that Davis had owned being used in an assault on a Marin County building. Davis declared her innocence and fled California. She was captured in New York City where President Richard Nixon congratulated the FBI on the "capture of the dangerous terrorist Angela Davis". A year later, in 1971, at the age of 27, Davis was found by an all white jury to be "not guilty". In the decades that followed she was a supporter of numerous communist regimes, and eventually returned to the University of California system, now teaching at UC Santa Cruz.
This rare original poster is in very good condition with some soiling, minor loss at top from tear out when it was posted. Overall size is 16 x 10.5 (inches)
"ANGELA DAVIS IS WANTED ON KIDNAPING AND MURDER CHARGES GROWING OUT OF AN ABDUCTION AND SHOOTING IN MARIN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA, ON AUGUST 7, 1970. SHE ALLEGEDLY HAS PURCHASED SEVERAL GUNS IN THE PAST. CONSIDER POSSIBLY ARMED AND DANGEROUS".
Born in Birmingham, Alabama where she attended a segregated Black school, she grew up in "Dynamite Hill", a neighborhood that had gained that nickname for the number of dynamite bombings that had happened to drive out middle class blacks that had tried to live in the area. But it was the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church that had galvanized something deep within her world view, as she personally knew each of the girls killed, sometimes her and her mother gave them rides to school. The FBI investigated this incident, identified suspects, but failed to prosecute and refused to disclose evidence found to state or local police. This may be Angela Davis' first proximity to the work of the FBI, but in time its focus would turn towards her, as she became involved with social groups that had some Communist support. She would be watched. Later after travel and studying abroad, she was finishing post graduate work, but was unable to receive her completed doctorate from the University of California, San Diego, as the FBI confiscated her manuscripts.
The incident for which the FBI created this wanted poster was related to guns that Davis had owned being used in an assault on a Marin County building. Davis declared her innocence and fled California. She was captured in New York City where President Richard Nixon congratulated the FBI on the "capture of the dangerous terrorist Angela Davis". A year later, in 1971, at the age of 27, Davis was found by an all white jury to be "not guilty". In the decades that followed she was a supporter of numerous communist regimes, and eventually returned to the University of California system, now teaching at UC Santa Cruz.
This rare original poster is in very good condition with some soiling, minor loss at top from tear out when it was posted. Overall size is 16 x 10.5 (inches)