Tag Archives: Angela Davis

What Radical Black Women Can Teach Us All About Movement-Building

Posted on February 6, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Black women supporting the Black Panther Party hold images of the group’s co-founder Huey P. Newton on May 1, 1969, in San Francisco. “The Movement for Black Lives is noteworthy for a leadership that is overwhelmingly women (both cis and trans). … Continue reading →

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Erased from utopia: the hidden history of LA’s black and brown resistance – Mike Davis and Jon Wiener

Posted on January 8, 2024 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The activist Angela Davis with the actor Jane Fonda during a demonstration against the Vietnam war at UCLA. “In August 1965, thousands of young Black people in Watts set fire to the illusion that Los Angeles was a youth paradise. … Continue reading →

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Marcuse and the 1960s ‘New Left’: the politics of impatience

Posted on October 10, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Herbert Marcuse May 2021: “At the beginning of the 1960s, the protracted post-war economic boom gave the illusion that capitalism had resolved all its boom-slump problems of the past, and had now reached the pinnacle of civilised development. In the … Continue reading →

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The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975

Posted on September 17, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The Black Power Mixtape 1967–1975 is a 2011 Swedish documentary film directed by Göran Olsson, that examines the evolution of the Black Power movement in American society from 1967 to 1975 as viewed through Swedish journalists and filmmakers. It features … Continue reading →

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The Contemporary Arts of Attica – E. C. Feiss

Posted on July 24, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Cover of the Attica Book, illustration by Antonio Frasconi. “In 1972, the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition (BECC), in partnership with the organization Artists and Writers Protest Against the War in Vietnam, published the culmination of their swift response to the September … Continue reading →

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Masked Racism: Reflections on the Prison Industrial Complex by Angela Davis

Posted on July 13, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Imprisonment has become the response of first resort to far too many of the social problems that burden people who are ensconced in poverty. These problems often are veiled by being conveniently grouped together under the category ‘crime’ and by … Continue reading →

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Chicano Moratorium

Posted on May 2, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

August 29, 1970: A Day Every Chicana/o Must Always Remember “The Chicano Moratorium, formally known as the National Chicano Moratorium Committee Against The Vietnam War, was a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based coalition of Mexican-American groups … Continue reading →

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Fred Hampton Murder / Angela Davis Revolutionary

Posted on April 25, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

The Black Panther, Fred Hampton “… On the night of November 13, 1969, while Hampton was in California, Chicago police officers John J. Gilhooly and Frank G. Rappaport were killed in a gun battle with Panthers; one died the next … Continue reading →

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East L.A. walkouts

Posted on April 16, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Sal Castro addresses students during the East L.A. Blowouts in 1968. “The East Los Angeles Walkouts or Chicano Blowouts were a series of 1968 protests by Chicano students against unequal conditions in Los Angeles Unified School District high schools. The … Continue reading →

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Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties – Mike Davis and Jon Wiener (2020)

Posted on February 16, 2023 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties is a book by Mike Davis and Jon Wiener about Los Angeles in the 1960s. The authors combine archival research and personal interviews with their own experiences in the civil rights … Continue reading →

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Angela Davis on the power of protest: ‘We can’t do anything without optimism’

Posted on March 12, 2022 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“The last time Angela Davis was in Birmingham, Alabama, she caught up with childhood friends and her Sunday school teacher. While many of us would reminisce about favourite classes and first kisses, they discussed bombs. ‘We talked about what it … Continue reading →

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During the 1971 Prosecution of Angela Davis, I Fought the Law — And I Won

Posted on July 1, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

February 1971 issue of Ramparts magazine: “It was 1971 and, being young, single, a political activist, and a New Yorker, I wasn’t home much at my third-floor walkup in Greenwich Village except to sleep. One night in March, my across-the-hall … Continue reading →

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The Black Panther Party: A Graphic Novel History

Posted on March 2, 2021 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Fred Hampton was the 21-year-old chief of staff and national spokesperson for the Black Panther Party when, on the morning of Dec. 4, 1969, Chicago police broke into his apartment and murdered him. Hampton was considered a charismatic danger by … Continue reading →

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Prison Memoirs: The New York Women’s House of Detention by Angela Davis (October 1974)

Posted on December 6, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“When the wailing of the sirens tapered off and the caravan began to slow down, I realized that I was somewhere in Greenwich Village. As the car turned into a dark driveway, a corrugated aluminum door began to rise and … Continue reading →

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Ava DuVernay Interviews Angela Davis on This Moment—And What Came Before

Posted on August 30, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“AVA DuVERNAY: I was reading an interview in which you talked about something that’s been on my mind quite a bit lately. It’s about this time we are in that I’ll just call a racial reckoning. Do you feel that … Continue reading →

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James Baldwin Talks About Racism in America & Civil Rights Activism on The Dick Cavett Show (1969)

Posted on August 14, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

James Baldwin, New York City, 1976; photograph by Nancy Crampton “There are many reasons, some quite literal, that it can be painful to talk about racism in the U.S. For one thing, it often seems that writers like W.E.B. Du … Continue reading →

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Resistance: How—Not Whether—to Act

Posted on July 31, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“I still believe that our cause (which is not only ours) is better taken up by the rebellious students than by the police, and, here in California, that is demonstrated to me almost daily,” wrote Herbert Marcuse (right) to his … Continue reading →

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Women’s Brigade of Weather Underground

Posted on June 7, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Bernardine Dohrn “Initially called ‘The Proud Eagle Tribe,’ the communiqué from the Women’s Brigade of the Weather Underground pledged to ‘build a militant women’s movement that commits itself to the destruction of Amerikan imperialism’ and exploit ‘the man’s chauvinism’ as … Continue reading →

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Life with the Black Panthers

Posted on February 29, 2020 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Kathleen Cleaver and Black Panther co-founder Bobby Seale (right) at a Free Huey rally in Oakland, California, in the summer of 1968. “When Howard Bingham was commissioned by Life magazine in 1967 to photograph the Black Panthers, he was, at … Continue reading →

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Angela Davis on Protest, 1968, and Her Old Teacher, Herbert Marcuse

Posted on June 2, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“As I write in May 2018, in the city of Paris, French students and workers are conducting demonstrations, sit-ins, and occupations with the aim of challenging the Macron government’s harsh attacks on labor and its announced efforts to restrict access … Continue reading →

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Susan Brownmiller

Posted on February 13, 2019 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Susan Brownmiller (born February 15, 1935) is an American feminist journalist, author, and activist best known for her 1975 book Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape. Brownmiller argues that rape had been previously defined by men rather than women, … Continue reading →

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The Gates of Freedom – Angela Davis | 9 June 1972

Posted on December 23, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Angela Davis speaks on a nationwide tour in Los Angeles. “It has been said many times that one can learn a great deal about a society by looking towards its prisons. Look towards its dungeons and there you will see … Continue reading →

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Poetry, Proto-Rap and Soul: The Sounds of the Black Power Revolution

Posted on November 9, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

Gil Scott Heron – The Revolution Will Not Be Televised “The word ‘revolution’ has lost its edge in the 21st century. Advertisements inform us there’s a revolution in hair care or a revolutionary new driverless car. But when young Americans … Continue reading →

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Fred Hampton

Posted on September 1, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Fred Hampton (August 30, 1948 – December 4, 1969) was an African-American activist and revolutionary, chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party (BPP), and deputy chairman of the national BPP. Hampton and fellow Black Panther Mark Clark … Continue reading →

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Radical feminism

Posted on August 6, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

As transgender rights gain acceptance, radical-feminist views have been shunned. Illustration by Alex Williamson. “Radical feminism is a perspective within feminism that calls for a radical reordering of society in which male supremacy is eliminated in all social and economic … Continue reading →

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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners (2012)

Posted on May 21, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

“Shola Lynch’s documentary about Angela Davis, the activist and beacon of counterculture radicalism, is a snappily edited, archivally wallpapered recollection of fearless behavior in the face of an antsy establishment. But it’s equally significant as a pointed act of retelling. … Continue reading →

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Angela Davis

Posted on March 23, 2018 by 1960s: Days of Rage

A mural of Angela Davis at the Abode of Chaos Museum in France. “Angela Yvonne Davis (born January 26, 1944) is an American political activist, academic, and author. She emerged as a prominent counterculture activist and radical in the 1960s … Continue reading →

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