Angela Davis on the Prison Abolishment Movement...the 40th Anniversary of Her Arrest

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Angela Davis on the Prison Abolishment Movement, Frederick Douglass, the 40th Anniversary of Her Arrest and President Obama’s First Two Years

For over four decades, Angela Davis has been one of most influential activists and intellectuals in the United States. An icon of the 1970s black liberation movement, her work around issues of gender, race, class and prisons has influenced critical thought and social movements for years. She is a leading advocate for prison abolition, a position informed by her own experience as a fugitive on the FBI’s Top 10 most wanted list forty years ago. Davis rose to national attention in 1969 when she was fired as a professor from UCLA as a result of her membership in the Communist party and her leading a campaign to defend three black prisoners at Soledad prison. Today she is a university professor and the founder of the group Critical Resistance, a grassroots effort to end the prison-industrial complex. This year she edited a new edition of Frederick Douglass’ classic work, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself. We spend the hour with Angela Davis and play rare archival footage of her.


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However a rush transcript is included.

http://www.democracynow.org/2010/10/19/angela_davis_on_the_prison_abolishment

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave Written by Himself: A New Critical Edition by Angela Y. Davis

Book – Non-fiction. By Frederick Douglass and essays by Angela Davis. 2009. 254 pages. The classic biography of Frederick Douglass with an introduction and critical analysis by Angela Davis
Time Periods: 19th Century | Themes: African American, Slavery | Reading Levels: High School | Resource Types: Books: Non-Fiction

A masterpiece of African American literature, Frederick Douglass’s “Narrative” is the powerful story of an enslaved youth coming into social and moral consciousness by disobeying his white slavemasters and secretly teaching himself to read. Achieving literacy emboldens Douglass to resist, escape, and ultimately achieve his freedom. After escaping slavery, Douglass became a leader in the anti-slavery and women’s rights movements, a bestselling author, and U.S. diplomat.

In this new critical edition, legendary activist and feminist scholar Angela Davis sheds new light on the legacy of Frederick Douglass. In two philosophical lectures originally delivered at UCLA in autumn 1969, Davis focuses on Douglass’s intellectual and spiritual awakening, and the importance of self-knowledge in achieving freedom from all forms of oppression. With detailed attention to Douglass’s text, she interrogates the legacy of slavery and shares timeless lessons about oppression, resistance, and freedom. And in an extended introductory essay written for this edition, Davis comments on previous editions of the “Narrative” and re-examines Douglass through a contemporary feminist perspective. An important new edition of an American classic. [Publisher's description.]

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http://zinnedproject.org/materials/narrative-of-the-life-of-frederick-douglass-an-american-slave-written-by-himself/

Amazing videos.

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1. K&R thanks she!

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2. Amazing woman. If I could sit down for an hour with one person from that era, it would

be her.

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3. Thank you loudsue!

I would love to have a chat with her too. Amazing Woman!

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4. Thank you, Angela, for all you have done and continue to do.