Angela Davis 1972

Cfa collection: Don McIlvaine Collection
Notes: The film begins with silent footage of security officers waving metal detectors around incoming audience members outside of Chicago’s Arie Crown Theatre. Inside the auditorium, a large banner reading “Welcome Angela - Free All Political Prisoners” hangs over a podium that has been equipped with bullet-proof glass. Angela Davis walks up to the podium to applause and a live band playing "Reach Out And Touch (Somebody's Hand)."; Davis then speaks to the crowd: "We have to talk about the judicial system, too, because if you take police violence, the whole police apparatus, the prison system, and the court system, and put them all together, what do we see? We see terror, and what we see is a microcosmic preview of fascism. That is what we see. How can you talk about a fair trial after months and months of solitary confinement? And how is it possible to talk about a fair trial when justice came not as the result of some kind of inherent fairness of the system, but rather as the fruit of a massive people's movement? That's where justice came from, not from the courts."
Subjects: Black Panther Party; Political Activists
Places: North America > United States > Illinois > Chicago
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 100 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/15176