Labelled a “dangerous terrorist” and a threat to the United States by President Richard Nixon, political activist Angela Davis was never afraid to take on the law.
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The new exhibition, Angela Davis: Freed by the People, takes its title from a pamphlet that announced her not guilty verdict in the infamous 1972 case where she was charged with the “aggravated kidnapping and first-degree murder” of Judge Harold Haley.
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Before the ruling, Davis spent 16 months in solitary confinement. Fortunately, prison did not break her – instead, it transformed her into a hero for people from all walks of life. One of the foremost figures in the global struggle for human rights over the past 50 years, Davis stands squarely at the intersections of race, gender, and class. Even now, at 75, she remains on the frontlines, fighting for prison abolition and freedom for the oppressed; from Ferguson to Palestine.
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