How an FBI Wanted poster turned Angela Davis into a symbol of Black Power and liberation. How did an FBI Wanted poster, intended to make a criminal out of activist and academic Angela Y.

Angela Davis was on the run, slipping through cities in wigs and disguises like a drag queen swapping looks between runway ...

Herb Bruce, Free Angela, 1971. Poster. (Lisbet Tellefsen Archive ... Edgar Hoover, put Davis on its Most Wanted list. When she was arrested two months later, President Richard Nixon congratulated ...

Angela Davis lived up to her billing as an "organizer" when she ... During a question-and-answer session in Freeborn Hall, someone in the audience handed Davis a 10 Most Wanted poster, the one with ...

"I knew who Angela Davis was, I knew she was this icon ... "The image that comes to mind is the FBI Most Wanted poster. There were so many months of that kind of press, and then there's very ...

For many Americans, Angela Davis remains frozen in a kind ... flyers on campus earlier this month with photos of Davis’ wanted poster, and many of the same objections to Davis that have been ...

A year later, after a courtroom melee left a judge and four others dead and the guns traced back to Davis, she landed on the FBI’s most-wanted ... hung a “Free Angela” poster on his wall.

Edgar Hoover placed Davis on the F.B.I.’s Ten Most Wanted list ... There’s a poster that makes her look like a sexy saint, with the words “Free Angela” hanging above and below her face ...

“Angela Davis is at the intersection of feminism ... laid out a sampling from the collection, including an FBI “Wanted” poster from the eight weeks Davis spent underground before her ...