Guide to the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis Records M0262
Franz Kunst
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
2021
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford 94305-6064
specialcollections@stanford.edu
Language of Material:
Multiple languages
Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: National United Committee to Free Angela Davis records
source:
National United Committee to Free Angela Davis
Identifier/Call Number: M0262
Identifier/Call Number: 1951
Physical Description:
250 Linear Feet
(489 boxes, 11 oversize folders)
Date (inclusive): circa 1970-1972
Abstract: The records of the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis consists overwhelmingly of support letters, most sent from
East Germany and the Soviet Union, which the group used to demonstrate global opinion about her conspiracy trial in California.
The collection also contains some of the organization's administrative records, publications and correspondence with a variety
of other political organizations. There is a small amount of material by Davis herself.
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Note that material must be requested at least 36 hours in advance of intended use. Audiovisual materials
are not available in original format, and must be reformatted to a digital use copy.
Preferred Citation
[identification of item], National United Committee to Free Angela Davis records (M0262). Dept. of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
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While Special Collections is the owner of the physical and digital items, permission to examine collection materials is not
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or reproduction beyond that allowed by fair use requires permission from the owners of rights, heir(s) or assigns.
Scope and Contents
The records of the National United Committee to Free Angela Davis (NUCFAD) consists overwhelmingly of support letters, most
sent from East Germany and the Soviet Union, which the group used to demonstrate international outrage concerning Angela Davis'
conspiracy trial in California. The collection also contains some of the organization's administrative records, publications
and correspondence with a variety of other political organizations. There is a small amount of material by Davis herself.
This collection was created in the course of a massive defense campaign following the capture and trial of Angela Davis. She
was accused of abetting an attempted jailbreak at the Marin County courthouse, but it was clear that she was equally on trial
as a Communist, as a Black woman, and as a public intellectual advocating revolution. Material is almost entirely from the
period surrounding her trial and the events prior to it - from 1970 to 1972. The collection contains hundreds of boxes of
support letters, cards and petitions from around the world, the bulk of which are the results of state-led efforts in Communist
Bloc countries (such as East Germany's "Million Roses" campaign). These were retained by the Committee to quantify public
opinion, and original organizing and counting was conducted by NUCFAD. Further ordering may have been done by library staff
upon the collection's receipt not long after the jury found Davis innocent, and this order was maintained while fully processing
the collection. A project running concurrently with the organizing of letters from the GDR and USSR has resulted in a very
granular geographic description based on postmarks and return addresses for thousands of letters. Cyrillic has been included in
the listing for most Russian locations.
Correspondents from the United States are also sorted by state, although letters identified as being from incarcerated and
military correspondents are filed separately. Europe is represented very heavily in the campaigns, especially the other Communist
countries of Poland, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary. Support was also strong in France, Italy, West Germany, Finland, and Belgium.
The majority of Commonwealth letters come from Australia.
Davis was relocated several times before her trial started, and it is remarkable how many letters successfully arrived at
NUCFAD offices, especially considering how vague many of the addresses are. Many letters were also addressed to Judge Richard
Arnason and the Santa Clara District Court as well as lawyers, sheriffs, governor Reagan, and president Nixon. Often, support
letters arrived in bulk mailings sent by schools, worker and youth groups, factory collectives and similar institutions. Packages
and tubes contained a variety of hand-drawn and printed posters, collages, artwork, proclamations, banners and cloth petitions.
Many children are compelled to draw images of Davis (and in the case of the Million Roses campaign, red flowers). Some of
these packages also contained magazines, books, and gifts. Although selected examples are sometimes separated from the many
boxes of nearly identical pre-printed cards, letters have been generally kept under country of origin. Many of the letters
are unopened. it should also be noted that there is often only a single folder of letters from most of the countries listed.
NUCFAD's administrative files include memoranda, notes, publications and correspondence related to fundraising, Free Angela
campaigns, and press access to Davis. There is also material related to the trial from her legal team, including minutes,
briefs, and correspondence.
Although the collection contains very little of Davis's own work or writing, there are a few letters and draft statements,
as well some family-related letters. There is also an annotated typescript copy of her book "If They Come in the Morning."
Along with newspaper and magazine clippings about Davis, there is a great deal of printed political material in the collection,
including books, magazines, pamphlets, newsletters, posters, handbills, and related items. Most are filed in their own series,
although some are located under their country of origin.
For better or worse, Angela Davis was and continues to be an icon of radical politics and Black struggle. This collection
serves as a snapshot of an important three years in her life, as reflected in movements around the world.
Processing Information
Collection processed by Paul Lowood, Natasha Porfirenko, and Gurudarshan Khalsa.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
African Americans -- History -- 20th century
African American women political activists
Women political activists -- United States -- History
African American intellectuals -- Political activity
Women political prisoners -- United States
Trials (Conspiracy) -- United States -- California
Communism and African Americans
National United Committee to Free Angela Davis
Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
Series 1. National United Committee to Free Angela Davis (NUCFAD) legal & administrative files, correspondence & publications
Scope and Contents
Files have been mostly kept as they were, with a few folders added later. Contains NUCFAD publications (including newsletters,
bulletins, press releases, brochures & booklets, fliers & posters), some also in draft form ; staff correspondence, including
with Fania Davis Jordan (Angela's sister: see also AYD family and elsewhere) ; legal files (small but important set of documents,
mostly assembled by defense lawyer Margaret Burnham) ; NUCFAD correspondence (more elsewhere) ; memoranda (both internal and
to chapters) and notes and administrative ephemera of various kinds.
Box 380, folder 1
Printed material (mostly LA address)
Scope and Contents
Memoranda, press releases (some also in draft form), fliers, booklets, stickers
Box 380, folder 2
Free Angela newsletters n.1-3, 6-7
1970-1971
Box 485, folder 14
Free Angela newsletter v.1 n.1, 9-12 (SFNUCFAD)
Box 485, folder 15
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners newsletter n.1-6 & unnumbered
Box 485, folder 16
Frame Up - Weekly Trial Bulletin v.1 n.1-10 ; v.2 n.1-6
Box 485, folder 17-18
Press releases & drafts (arranged chronologically)
Box 489, folder 9
Free Angela pamphlets etc. (mostly NUCFAD)
Box 389, folder 2
Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners poster (NUCFAD)
Box 309, Folder 3
National Committee layouts
Scope and Contents
Contains several layouts and sketches for support material by the Committee in Los Angeles, including annotated camera-ready
layout of Free Angela newsletter (No. 2 December 1970) with draft typescript, also annotated.
1.2. Staff correspondence
Box 380, folder 9
Invitation to baby shower sent to Franklyn Alexander
1971
Scope and Contents
"A Revolutionary Shower for Coming Revolutionaries, For Frances Young, Fania Davis Jordan & Pamela Ashley ... Oakland"
Box 380, folder 10
Kendra Alexander to John Thorne, copy sent to AYD
1971-01-20
Box 380, folder 11
Victoria Mercado correspondence
Scope and Contents
Includes at least two letters to AYD
Box 486, folder 24
Victoria Mercado to AYD
Scope and Contents
Two letters. See also NUCFAD correspondence file
Box 380, folder 12
Francoise Spaulding correspondence
Scope and Contents
mostly draft reponses to incoming NUCFAD letters
Box 380, folder 13
Incoming correspondence addressed to NUCFAD staff
Scope and Contents
Also includes one letter from Moscow in English to AYD
Box 486, folder 20
Fania Jordan correspondence
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence to D.C. Committee 12/10/71; Rep. David Holmes (Michigan) 2/9/72
Box 379, folder 9
Notes attached to correspondence - probably by Jordan?
1972
Scope and Contents
Notes are dated February 1972 in Paris and March 1972 in Tokyo - possibly from her global support tour
Box 379, folder 10
Correspondence to Fania Jordan
Scope and Contents
Two letters in English sent from Germany, and one card from New York
Box 379, folder 11
Frederick Bernard Wood to Fania Jordan
1972-02
Scope and Contents
Had originally tried to contact AYD. Includes two issues of his "Communication Theory In the Cause of Man" newsletter
Box 486, folder 1-3
Legal correspondence (arranged chronologically)
Scope and Contents
John Abt ; Cyril Phillip etc. (Angela Davis Legal Defense Fund) ; Margaret Burnham ; "Brain Trust for Angela Davis" transcript
from New Jersey Speaks WNET program interviewing Haywood Burns, Charles Jones & Herbert Reid ; Allan Brotsky (Garry, Dreyfus,
McTernan & Brotsky) ; Kennedy & Rhine ; Howard Moore, Jr. (Moore, Alexander & Rindskopf) ; Haywood Burns etc. (National Conference
of Black Lawyers) ; John Thorne (Thorne, Stanton, Clopton, Herz, Stanek & Steinberg)
Box 486, folder 5
"Material on Defense - Margaret" Margaret Burnham & Michael Lima notes, meeting minutes (including NUCFAD subcommittees),
draft correspondence, etc.
Box 379, folder 1
Motion for Admission to Bail Pending Trial (photocopy)
Box 381
Moore & Burnham check register (unfoldered)
1.5. Memoranda & Work Reports
Box 380, folder 3
Memoranda re: local chapter formation
1.6. Administrative files
Box 380, folder 4
Administrative correspondence etc. (mostly re: postal service)
Box 380, folder 6
Notes and ephemera related to support letters
Box 500, folder 4
Office & mail-related ephemera, misdelivered mail, etc.
Box 381, folder 3
Guestbook for unknown San Francisco Bay Area event
1972-05-07
Box 382, folder 1
Envelope of stamps (mostly DDR) removed from support letters, labeled "M. Burnham"
Series 2. Support statements & correspondence from NUCFAD files
Scope and Contents
Contains both domestic and International support letters and statements originally filed separately from the majority of letters.
Researchers interested in specific countries or regions should refer to Series 6-14, bulk support letters by country, as well
as Series 3. Selected Correspondence.
Box 485, folder 1
Letters to AYD, mostly forwarded by John Abt, Howard Moore and others
Scope and Contents
Mostly support, some possibly more personal.
Box 485, folder 2
Letters - military & prison
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from soldiers in Vietnam, including those serving on USS Constellation
Box 485, folder 3
"Incoming Mail" Mostly SFBA, addressed to AYD
Scope and Contents
Some added, including reactions to televised interview with Rev. Cecil Williams
Box 485, folder 5
Telegrams, mostly Happy Birthday messages
Box 485, folder 10
Statements (photocopies) - James Baldwin, Ron Dellums, Julian Bond, Coretta Scott King, Berkeley Mayor Widener (signed, was
in frame)
Box 375, folder 1
Free Angela organizations, U.S. & Canada A-M
Scope and Contents
Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Angela Davis ; Ad Hoc Committee to Free Angela Davis (Saskatchewan) ; Angela Davis Defense
Committee of Miami ; Angela Davis Liberation Party ; Bay Area Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Che-Lumumba Club ; Chicago
Angela Davis Committee / Power of People ; Comite Quebecois pour la Defense d'Angela Davis ; Committee to Free Angela Davis
(Providence, R.I.) ; Committee to Liberate Angela Davis (Ventura, CA) ; D.C. Committee to Free Angela Davis ; East Bay Women
for Peace ; Greater Boston Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Los Angeles Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Marin Committee to
Free Angela Davis ; Michigan Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Milwaukee Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Minnesotans to Free
Angela Davis
Box 375, folder 2
Free Angela organizations, U.S. & Canada N-V
Scope and Contents
National Committee of the Arts to Free Angela Davis ; New York Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Ohio Committee to Free Angela
Davis ; Oklahoma University Free Angela Davis Committee ; Portland Committee to Free Angela Davis ; San Antonio Committee
to Free Angela Davis ; San Fernando Valley Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Vancouver Angela Davis Defense Committee
Box 487, folder 1
Free Angela organizations, U.S. & Canada A-H
Scope and Contents
Academics in Support of Angela Davis ; Adult Armchair Education ; Alliance to End Repression ; American Federation of Teachers
Local 1990, Black Caucus ; Ann Arbor Committee to Free Angela Davis & All Political Prisoners ; Asian Americans for Action
[Yuri Kochiyama to AYD, signed Mary Kochiyama] ; Bay Area United Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Black Unity Organization
; Black Women for Progress ; Black Women United ; California Association of Afro-American Education ; California Democratic
Council ; Cambridge City Council ; Chicago Angela Davis Defense Committee ; Chicago Theological Seminary ; Chicago Committee
to Defend the Bill of Rights ; Coalition of Concerned Black Americans ; Committee to Defend the Constitutional Rights of Angela
Davis and All Political Prisoners [Denver, CO] ; Committee to Defend Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners ; Committee
of Concerned Academics ; Committee to Elect Angela [Brandeis Alumni Association] ; Committee of the Arts to Free Angela Davis
; Congressional Black Caucus [Congressman Conyers press release] ; Council on Church & Race ; Episcopal Peace Fellowship ;
Free Angela Davis Coalition [Seattle] ; Greater Boston Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Hospital Workers Union Local 250 SEIU
Box 487, folder 2
Free Angela organizations, U.S. & Canada I-Y
Scope and Contents
Immanuel United Church of Christ [Los Angeles] ; Jewish Committee for a Fair Trial for Angela Davis ; Marin Committee to Free
Angela Davis ; Medical Committee for Human Rights ; Memphis Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Michigan Committee to Free Angela
Davis ; Minnesota Committee to Free Angela Davis ; MUNI Drivers Association [San Francisco] ; National Council of the Churches
of Christ ; National Urban League ; New York Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Office and Professional Employees Union Local
29 [Oakland] ; Ohio University Federation of Teachers ; Postal Worker's Union #2 ; Organization of Arab Students in the U.S.A.
and Canada ; Pan African Students Organization in the Americas, Inc. ; Sonoma County Committee for the Defense of Political
Prisoners ; Southern California Committee to Free Angela Davis ; Southern Christian Leadership Conference ; Southern Conference
Educational Fund ; Teachers' Committee for the Defense of Free Angela Davis ; United Auto Workers Local 1112 [Ohio] ; UCLA
Faculty for Angela Davis ; Women Mobilized for Change ; Women Strike for Peace ; Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom ; Young Women's Christian Association
Box 487, folder 3
Power of People (Chicago) packet
Box 487, folder 5
Communist Party USA, Che Lumumba Club, etc.
Box 489, folder 6
NUCFAD support binders (clippings and copies of statements)
Scope and Contents
"Public Figures & Community Leaders Support Angela Davis" ; "Community Support for Angela Davis"
Box 489, folder 7
NUCFAD support binders (clippings and copies of statements)
Scope and Contents
"Organized Activity on Behalf of Angela Davis" ; National Organizations Support Angela Davis (ILWU, NAACP, YWCA)"
2.2. International Support
Box 487, folder 6
Canada
Creator: Davis, Fania
Scope and Contents
includes Fania Jordan correspondence
Related Materials
See also Commonwealth Countries series
Box 487, folder 7
England / Scotland / Ireland
Related Materials
See also Commonwealth Countries series
Box 487, folder 8
Australia
Creator: Sykes, Roberta B.
Related Materials
See also Commonwealth Countries series
Scope and Contents
Contains photos of Bobbi Sykes at demonstration as well as other demonstration photos
Box 487, folder 9
USSR
Related Materials
See also USSR series
Box 487, folder 10
Germany (& one Austria)
Related Materials
See also East Germany, Europe series
Box 488, folder 1
Hungary / Czechoslovakia
Related Materials
See also Communist Europe series
Box 488, folder 2
Greece / Italy
Related Materials
See also Europe series
Box 488, folder 3
France
Related Materials
See also Europe series
Box 488, folder 4
Denmark / Netherlands / Sweden / Finland
Related Materials
See also Europe series
Box 488, folder 5
Spanish language packet with translations, also letters from Argentina, Chile, Columbia, Mexico, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela
Related Materials
See also Mexico / Central & South America / Carribean series
Box 488, folder 6
FELN (Algeria) ; petition from "Arab Intellectuals" ; Israel Young Communist League
Related Materials
See also Asia / Middle East / Africa series
Box 488, folder 7
Africa (& one Guyana newsclipping)
Related Materials
See also Asia / Middle East / Africa series
Scope and Contents
Florence Mophoso, African National Congress ; letter from Nigeria forwarded by Herbert Marcuse ; letter from "sister from
Tanzania" ; Guyana clipping
Box 488, folder 8
Vietnam
Related Materials
See also Asia / Middle East / Africa series
Box 488, folder 9
Japan
Related Materials
See also Asia / Middle East / Africa series
Box 488, folder 10
Hong Kong / Philippines / India / Bangladesh (one letter from each)
Related Materials
See also Asia / Middle East / Africa series
Box 500, folder 1
Poland / Romania / Switzerland / Belgium
Related Materials
See also Europe & Communist Europe series
Box 500, folder 2-3
Bulgaria
Related Materials
See also Communist Europe series
Box 488, folder 12
Women's International Democratic Federation
Box 488, folder 13
International Women's Organizations Support Statements
Box 488, folder 11
World Federation of Democratric Youth etc.
Box 378, folder 2
World Federation of Democratic Youth support ephemera - printed material (statements, cards, stickers, brochures, fliers,
petitions, etc.)
Scope and Contents
Press releases, pamphlets, WFDY News 1972, World Youth n.5 1971, n.1 1972, 8th Assembly of WFDY 1970
Box 500, folder 5
Stamps, empty envelopes & packets
Series 3. Selected correspondence
Scope and Contents
Correspondence of generally more notable or substantive nature. Some were originally in NUCFAD files, others were identified
while processing.
Box 486, folder 6
Bella Abzug telegram to Bettina Aptheker & Aptheker invitation to Abzug 4/14/72
1972-04-14
Creator: Abzug, Bella S., 1920-1998
Creator: Aptheker, Bettina
Box 379, folder 14
Bettina Aptheker to AYD
1971-1972
Creator: Aptheker, Bettina
Scope and Contents
12/29/1971 and 1/24/72 (and loose envelope 1971)
Box 486, folder 7
Bettina Aptheker (& 2 by Herbert Aptheker)
Creator: Aptheker, Bettina
Creator: Aptheker, Herbert
Scope and Contents
Includes 5 letters to AYD
Box 486, folder 9
Heinrich Böll to Bettina Aptheker
1971-12-27
Scope and Contents
Brief note
Box 379, folder 15
Jules Borker to Franklyn Alexander
1972-01
Box 486, folder 10
Jules Borker
Scope and Contents
Includes letter from AYD 4/12/72, letter from Howard Moore 11/11/71
Box 379, folder 22
Greg [Gregory Armstrong] to AYD re: George Jackson
1970-10-31
Creator: Armstrong, Gregory, 1931-
Scope and Contents
Bantam Books letterhead
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Jackson, George, 1941-1971
Box 486, folder 8
Greg [Gregory Armstrong] to AYD
Creator: Armstrong, Gregory, 1931-
Scope and Contents
Brief note
Box 379, folder 16
Yvonne Brathwaite (CA assembly) - AYD
1971-1972
Creator: Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
Creator: Burke, Yvonne Brathwaite
Scope and Contents
11/1/1971 and AYD reply 1/7/72
Box 486, folder 11
Julia Cappenberg
Scope and Contents
Two packets of material - one about the case of San Quentin Death Row inmate Robert L. Duren, Jr., the other about the formation
of a Germany-Vietnam Committee
Box 486, folder 12
Ernest Chambers (Nebraska Senator)
1971-01-22
Creator: Chambers, Ernest William, 1937-
Box 486, folder 13
Shirley Chisholm (U.S. House of Representatives)
1971
Creator: Chisholm, Shirley, 1924-2005
Scope and Contents
Photocopy of 7/21/71 statement and Howard Moore draft letter 8/9/71
Box 486, folder 14
John Conyers, Jr. telegram (Congressional Black Caucus)
1972-02-02
Creator: Congressional Black Caucus
Creator: Conyers, John, Jr., 1929-
Box 379, folder 17
Council on Church and Race to NUCFAD
1971-06-07
Creator: United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Council on Church and Race
Box 485, folder 11
Ossie Davis address, AYD Bail Conference
1971-06-05
Creator: Davis, Ossie
Scope and Contents
Photocopied typescript "not for publication."
Box 486, folder 15
Sandy & Bram Dijkstra to Margaret Burnham re: Harold Land "Ode to Angela" recording
Box 486, folder 16
Ebony magazine to AYD
Creator: Ebony (Chicago, Ill.)
Scope and Contents
Charles Leonard Sanders, Managing Editor 1/29/71 ; Reginald Carroll Hayes, Director of Public Affairs 4/2/71
Box 379, folder 41
Ida Garrison to AYD
1972-04-11
Scope and Contents
Appeal for help concerning her incarcerated son
Box 379, folder 19
Carlton B. Goodlett to AYD
1971-12-22
Creator: Goodlett, Carlton B. (Carlton Benjamin), 1914-1997
Scope and Contents
Card with short note
Box 379, folder 20
Rosemary Gordon & Anna Chikoti to AYD
Scope and Contents
MPLA (People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola) card with short note
Box 379, folder 21
Frank Greenwood
1971-01-11
Scope and Contents
re: AACA Forum proceeds, KPFK interview
Box 486, folder 17
Hilda Hein (College of Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.) to AYD
1972-05-19
Box 486, folder 18
Ericka [Huggins] & Bobby [Seale?] to AYD
1971-02-11
Box 486, folder 19
Jesse Jackson telegram
1971-01-05
Creator: Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
Box 379, folder 23
Jean to AYD
1972-01-26
Scope and Contents
Card with short note. Possibly a journalist
Box 380, Folder 8
Jim Jones Congregation petitions
Box 379, folder 25
Yuri Kochiyama to AYD
1972-01-15
Creator: Kochiyama, Yuri
Related Materials
There is also a Kochiyama letter in Domestic Support Statements -> Free Angela organizations -> Asian Americans for Action.
Box 486, folder 21
William Kunstler to AYD
1971-02-26
Creator: Kunstler, William M. (William Moses), 1919-1995
Box 379, folder 24
Paul Landwehr
1971-02-04
Scope and Contents
Short note with copy of 1969 exchange with UCLA Chancellor Charles Young
Box 379, folder 26
Georg Lukacs to "Comrade Aptheker" (photocopy)
1971-01-20
Creator: Lukács, György, 1885-1971
Box 486, folder 22
Reggie [Reginald Major?] to AYD
1971-02-01
Scope and Contents
Also 12/71 card also signed "Reggie"
Box 379, folder 27
Herbert Marcuse to Bettina Aptheker
1972-04-05
Scope and Contents
Short note forwarding petition
Box 486, folder 23
Herbert & Inge Marcuse to AYD
Scope and Contents
Two short notes from Herbert forwarding mail, one letter from Inge 1/21/70
Box 379, folder 28
Reba G. Mason to AYD
1972-05-05
Scope and Contents
re: Jeffery Gaulden (Khatari). With photograph
Box 379, folder 29
Earl F. Mink to NUCFAD
1972-02-14
Scope and Contents
With copy of Motion to Quash
Box 486, folder 25
Tillie Olsen to Doris Brin Walker with reply
1972
Creator: Olsen, Tillie
Scope and Contents
With copy of "Tell Me A Riddle" inscribed to Angela and photocopy of article. Olsen wanted Doris to give these to AYD via
Bettina Aptheker
Box 379, folder 30
Pacific Sun assistant editor Alice Yarish to AYD
1971-11-30
Scope and Contents
Enclosed with letter to Howard Moore
Box 485, folder 12
Jiří Pelikán (Czechoslovakia) open letter to Davis in New York Review of Books v.XIX n.3, forwarded by editor R.B. Silvers
Box 379, folder 31
People's World invoice to NUCFAD
1971-05-31
Box 379, folder 32
Pine Hill Baptist Church, Davisboro, Georgia
1972-06-24
Scope and Contents
With draft of NUCFAD reply
Box 379, folder 33
Anton Refregier signed peace poster
1972
Box 379, folder 34
Roberta to AYD (8 p.)
1972-01-28
Box 379, folder 35
John Saba, Student Peace Association, University of Arizona to NUCFAD
1971-05-03
Box 379, folder 36
San Antonio Committee to Free Angela Davis
1971
Scope and Contents
1/14/71 & 3/8/71. See also "Free Angela organizations, U.S. & Canada, N-V" file
Box 486, folder 26
Jessica Smith (New World Review)
Scope and Contents
One letter to AYD, two to Margaret Burnham
Box 486, folder 27
Stax Record Company - John W. Smith & Larry Shaw [photocopy]
1971-02-01
Creator: Stax Records
Scope and Contents
Recording proposal
Box 379, folder 40
Angela Davis Solidarity Committee (Frankfurt, Germany) to Fay Stender
1970-12-16
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Stender, Fay
Box 379, folder 37
Anne R. Strauss-Frank to Howard Moore
1972-01-14
Box 486, folder 28
Kitty Tsui - Fania Jordan
Creator: Tsui, Kitty
Creator: Davis, Fania
Scope and Contents
Includes fliers for two 3rd World Women Poets events
Box 486, folder 30
Harold Washington, Jr. to AYD [as "Hap"]
1970-12-29
Box 379, folder 38
Rev. Cecil Williams to AYD
1971-02-18
Creator: Williams, Cecil, 1929-
Scope and Contents
Newspaper clipping added to file
Box 485, folder 13
Sherley Williams "Meditations on History" typescript sent by Evelyn Shapiro
Creator: Williams, Sherley Anne, 1944-1999
Box 379, folder 39
Winnipeg Committee to Free Angela Davis to Franklyn Alexander
1971-11-12
Box 485, folder 9
"Yolande's Film" - packet of material related to negotations with production of Yolande DuLuart documentary "Angela: Portrait
of a Revolutionary"
Series 4. Angela Davis (AYD)
Creator: Davis, Angela Y. (Angela Yvonne), 1944-
Scope and Contents
Although there is very little in the collection overall created by Angela Davis herself, some of the individual items and
artifacts included here are intimate evidence of her time in prison before and during her trial. There are drafts of outgoing
correspondence, some letters to her including from her family, notes and other drafts (some torn into very small pieces),
magazines addressed to her in jail, and other material.
4.1. Davis writing & correspondence
Box 379, folder 3
Statement - "To the High School Students in Buffalo"
1972-02-18
Scope and Contents
Annotated & signed typescript
Box 379, folder 4
Letter to Syed Nazrul Islam (acting President of Bangladesh)
Scope and Contents
Unsigned typescript draft
Box 379, folder 5
Letter to Fleeta [Drumgo]
1972-01-08
Scope and Contents
Annotated & signed typescript
Box 489, folder 1
Correspondence
Scope and Contents
Mostly to prisoners (some returned to sender), one letter expressing interest in Temple University Philosophy Department
Box 489, folder 2
Writing
Scope and Contents
"Published" copies of letters to George Jackson ; unsigned legal typescript found in John Abt letter envelope 1/12/71 ; unsigned
legal manuscript found in Jessica Smith letter envelope 1/22/70 ; other statements & transcripts (some published)
Box 489, folder 3
"Marxism & Women's Liberation" (uncorrected copies)
Box 489, folder 4
Packet labeled "Trash" - probably material from AYD while in jail
Scope and Contents
Includes telegrams, draft correspondence and envelopes retained for return addresses (mostly prisoners), notes (some torn
into pieces), an exercise chart, etc.
Box 489, folder 5
"Angela Davis Legal Materials" packet (also labeled "Trash")
Scope and Contents
Draft correspondence (including to Georgia Jackson and cousin Dearmon), notes (some torn into pieces), doodles, publications,
medical statement, etc.
Box 490
"If They Come in the Night" bound typescript with annotations by Davis (unfoldered)
Box 490, folder 1
Correspondence & reviews related to "If They Come in the Night"
Scope and Contents
Little or no AYD herself
Box 379, folder 7
Sallye Davis (mother) to AYD
1972-01-26
Scope and Contents
Two letters with birthday wishes
Box 379, folder 8
Letters from children to AYD
Scope and Contents
Three letters. Two mention her mother and one has a short note from her.
Box 485, folder 4
Letters from mother Sallye, sister Fania, also aunt, cousins, etc.
Related Materials
See also Fania Jordan material in NUCFAD series.
4.3. Photographs & miscellaneous
Box 385, folder 3
Three photographs of AYD - two from Thames Television, one possibly with Jonathan P. Jackson
Box 379, folder 2
Handwritten notes for physical exercises
Scope and Contents
Possibly for exercising while in jail.
Box 382, folder 4
Magazines addressed to AYD at Santa Clara Jail - Jet, Time, U.S. News & World Report
Series 5. Soledad Brothers, Jacksons, Ruchel Magee & related causes
Scope and Contents
This is a relatively small series of documents, correspondence and ephemera related to other political causes, mostly in California.
Related material can be found in many other series.
Box 488, folder 15
Material related to Soledad Brothers, Jacksons, Ruchel Magee
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of George Jackson legal document, Ruchell Magee statements, "Revolutionary Memorial Service" program for Jonathan
Jackson, James McClain & William Christmas
Box 389, folder 8
Free Ruchell Magee poster
Box 378, folder 3
Political ephemera
Scope and Contents
Mostly non-periodical material by organizations, with few references to Davis. Includes:
African Liberation Day San Francisco 1972 ; ACLU Foundation of Southern California ; American Federation of Teachers ; Black
Moors ; Committee To Defend Ridenour And Warren ; Committee to End Tax Loopholes ; Common Cause ; Coordinating Council of
Prisoner Organizations ; Feminist Party ; Folsom Prisoners Manifesto of Demands 1970 (distributed by Connections) ; Jacob
J. Gordon for President 1972 ; Michigan Committee Against Repression ; New American Movement ; New England Free Press ; Peace
And Freedom Association ; Polaroid Revolutionary Workers' Movement ; Rural Advancement Fund ; Southern Conference Educational
Fund ; Soledad Brothers Defense Committee/Fund ; Southern Poverty Law Center ; Support Our Solders ; United Farmworkers Organizing
Committee (Rhode Island) ; Women's Center (Los Angeles) ; Women's National Abortion Action Coalition
Box 488, folder 14
Ephemera & correspondence - other causes
Scope and Contents
Black Women's Task Force ; Medical Committee for Human Rights ; African Liberation Day ; Los Siete ; Socialist Workers Party
; Young Lords Party ; Attica ; Howard Moore eulogy for Peter Eric Rindskopf
Series 6. United States
Scope and Contents
Researchers interested in all correspondence from the United States should also refer to both Series 2. Support Letters From
NUCFAD files, as well as Series 3. Selected Correspondence. Organized by state, with separate files for letters from military
and incarcerated correspondents.Some artwork, publications & printed material has also been filed elsewhere.
6.1. Letters, sorted by state
box 346, folder 1-2
California - San Francisco
box 346, folder 4
California - Berkeley / Richmond
box 346, folder 5
California - Palo Alo / East Palo Alto
box 346, folder 6
California - Stanford University
box 347, folder 2
California - Peninsula (Burlingame, Menlo Park, San Carlos, Redwood City, Cupertino, etc.)
box 347, folder 8
California - Southern / Los Angeles
Box 348
California - Southern / Los Angeles
box 353, folder 8
South Carolina (1 letter)
box 355, folder 8-9
miscellaneous (no return address or postmark)
box 356, folder 1
Prison reform & prisoners rights advocacy, etc.
box 356, folder 3
Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, D.C., Florida
box 356, folder 4
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana
box 356, folder 5
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi
box 357, folder 2
Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin
box 357, folder 3
handmade card (unknown sender)
6.3. Letters from military personnel
box 357, folder 5
Florida, Georgia, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina
6.4. Petitions, North America
Box 19
Petitions: Washington (state)
Box 20
Petitions: Ohio and Oregon
Box 35
Petitions: Connecticut, New Jersey, North Carolina, Massachusetts, and Michigan
Box 36
Petitions: Maryland and Pennsylvania
Box 37
Petitions: Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana, Maine, Missouri, and Washington, D.C.
Box 38
Petitions: Minnesota and Rhode Island
Box 39
Petitions: Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Hawaii, Indiana, and Mississippi
Box 43
Petitions: Chicago and Illinois
Box 46
Petitions: Southern California
Box 47
Petitions: Southern California
Box 48
Petitions: Bay Area and Northern California
Box 49
Petitions: Northern California
Box 50
Petitions: Northern California
Box 51
Petitions: Northern California
Box 54
Miscellaneous bound petitions: United States
Box 55
Mailed petitions in envelopes
Box 56
Unbound petitions: Michigan, Seattle, New York City, and Pittsburgh
Box 57
Unbound petitions: New York
Box 58
Unbound petitions: Massachusetts and New York
Scope and Contents
Also includes newspaper ads.
Box 59
Unbound petitions: Michigan, New Jersey, Toronto, and Vancouver
Box 60
Unbound petitions: San Francisco
box 358, folder 1
Advertisements, appeals, magazine subscription notices, etc.
box 358
Christian tracts, magazines, etc. (unfoldered)
Box 361
Letters demonstrating possible mental health issues
Scope and Contents
Letters from prolific correspondents who may be delusional or mentally ill.
Box 361
Anti-Communist letters and publications
Box 381, Folder 4
Leather satchel with personal and legal effects
Scope and Contents
Belonged to Redwood City man who may have met AYD
Series 7. Europe
Scope and Contents
Researchers interested in specific countries or regions should also refer to Series 2. support letters as arranged by NUCFAD
files, as well as Series 3. Selected Correspondence. Some artwork, publications & printed material has also been filed elsewhere.
box 320
Finland
Scope and Contents
Includes publications.
box 334, folder 4
Switzerland (includes publications)
box 341, folder 1
Spain (3 letters plus publications)
Series 8. France, Germany (West & general), Italy
Scope and Contents
Researchers interested in specific countries or regions should also refer to Series 2. support letters as arranged by NUCFAD
files, as well as Series 3. Selected Correspondence. Some artwork, publications & printed material has also been filed elsewhere.
map-folder 316
France: Posters - oversized
Box 384, Folder 8
Publications & clippings, France
8.2. Germany (East & West)
Box 492
Support letters (unsorted)
Box 493
Support letters (unsorted)
Box 494
Support letters (unsorted)
Box 495
Support letters (unsorted)
Box 375, folder 9
Political booklets & publications
Box 375, folder 10
Miscellaneous publications
Box 377, folder 3
Political publications with AYD
Box 378, folder 6
Clippings mostly about AYD
Box 387, folder 2
Mounted pages- German Communist publication
Series 9. East Germany
Scope and Contents
The East Germany series was the subject of an independent research project conducted in tandem with archival processing. Support
letters (almost all from the "Freiheit für Angela Davis" campaign) were sorted according to postal code. Some artwork, publications
& printed material has been filed elsewhere.
9.1. Letters A-Z by postal code
Scope and Contents
This sub-series is organized alphabetically by municipality. The boxes contain unfoldered letters.
9.2. Letters, etc. East Berlin
Box 237
East Berlin: DDR-Komitee für Menschenrechte
Box 238
East Berlin: Demokratische Frauenbund Deutschlands
Box 239
East Berlin: Freier Deutsche Gewerkschaftsbund
Box 239
East Berlin: Nationalrat der Nationalen Front des Demokratischen Deutschland
box 324
International Women's Day
box 324
Selected letters, art, petitions, etc.
box 325, folder 1-3
Letters with AD collage/clippings
box 325, folder 5
Postcards with streetscapes
box 325, folder 6
Postcards with streetscapes - East Berlin
box 326, folder 1
Postcards & envelopes- political
box 327, folder 4
Photo portraits
Scope and Contents
Includes two identical packets sent by Friedensrat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik to the Committee to Free Angela Davis,
with photos of the opening of a GDR Peace Council exhibition "in solidarity with Angela Davis" attended by Claude Lightfoot.
Also several packets of support letters with snapshots.
box 327, folder 5
Selected correspondence (more text)
Box 384, folder 2
Photo collage of rally sent by Allgemeiner Deutscher Nachrichtendienst
Box 385, folder 1
Packet with petitions and artwork
Box 387, folder 3
Book of signatures with decorated red velvet cover
Box 387
Collages, artwork, signatures, etc. - oversize (unfoldered)
9.4. Letters, miscellaneous unidentified, no post-mark, etc.
9..5. Posters
Scope and Contents
Mostly homemade petition/collages, some political banners, a few printed posters
map-folder 363
Packing material (posters used as packaging - damaged)
Series 10. Communist Europe
Scope and Contents
Contains files from Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Yugoslavia. See also East Germany and USSR series.
Researchers interested in specific countries or regions should also refer to Series 2. support letters as arranged by NUCFAD
files, as well as Series 3. Selected Correspondence. Some artwork, publications & printed material has also been filed elsewhere.
Box 280, Folder 8
Burgas
Scope and Contents
May also include Berkovitsa, Blagoevgrad, and Botevgrad.
Box 281, Folder 2
Dimitrovgrad - Dobrich - Dupnitsa
Box 281, Folder 4
Gabrovo - Gorna Oryahovitsa - Gotse Delchev
Box 281, Folder 8
Kardzhali - Karlovo - Karnobat - Kazanlak - Kyustendil
Box 282, Folder 7
P: General (Panagyurishte, Pazardzhik, Pernik, Peshtera, Petrich, Pleven, Plovdiv, and Popovo)
Box 283, Folder 4
Rakovski - Razgrad - Ruse - Rusenski
Box 283, Folder 6
S: General (Samokov, Sandanski, Sevlievo, Shumen, Silistra, Sliven, Smolyan, Sofia, Stara Zagora, Svilengrad, Svishtov)
Box 286, Folder 6
Varna (Veliko Turnovo, Velingrad, Vidin, Vratsa)
Box 377, folder 2
Народна Младежъ - Narodna Mladej [People's Youth]
Scope and Contents
With letter from International Department: "We enclose some of the copies of our newspaper that mention our action or other
articles on Angela" See also Clippings files.
Box 385, folder 2
Packet with collage, letters, photos
box 331
Czechoslovakia (includes publications)
box 334, folder 2
Hungary - World Federation of Democratic Youth
10.5. Romania & Yugoslavia
Series 11. USSR
Scope and Contents
Similiar to the East Germany series, Russian support letters were sorted according to postal code. Some artwork, publications
& printed material has been filed elsewhere.
Box 392, folder 3-5
Akhangel'sk (Архангельск)
Box 393, folder 1
Akhangel'sk (Архангельск)
Box 401, folder 1-2
Kaliningrad (Калининград)
Box 418, folder 3-5
Novosibirsk (Новосибирск)
Box 419, folder 1-2
Novosibirsk (Новосибирск)
Box 435, folder 3
Vladivostok (Владивосток)
Box 439, folder 2
Arkhangel'sk (Архангельск) OVERSIZE
Box 439, folder 3
Gor'kii (Горький) OVERSIZE
Box 439, folder 4
Iaroslavl' (Ярославль) OVERSIZE
Box 439, folder 5
Irkutsk (Иркутск) OVERSIZE
Box 439, folder 6
Ivanovo (Иваново) OVERSIZE
Box 439, folder 7
Kalinin (Калинин) OVERSIZE
Box 439, folder 9
Kemerovo (Кемерово) OVERSIZE
Box 439, folder 10
Kostroma (Кострома) OVERSIZE
Box 439, folder 11
Krasnoiarsk (Красноярск) OVERSIZE
Box 439, folder 12
Krasnodar (Краснодар) OVERSIZE
Box 439, folder 13
Kuibyshev (Куйбышев) OVERSIZE
Box 439, folder 15
Leningrad (Ленинград) OVERSIZE
Box 440, folder 1
Leningrad (Ленинград) OVERSIZE
Box 444, folder 1
Orenburg (Оренбург) OVERSIZE
Box 444, folder 4
Sakhalin (Сахалин) OVERSIZE
Box 444, folder 5
Saratov (Саратов) OVERSIZE
Box 444, folder 6
Stavropol' (Ставрополь) OVERSIZE
Box 444, folder 7
Sverdlovsk (Свердловск) OVERSIZE
Box 444, folder 9
Ul'ianovsk (Ульяновск) OVERSIZE
Box 444, folder 10
Vladimir (Владимир) OVERSIZE
Box 444, folder 11
Vladivostok (Владивосток) OVERSIZE
Box 444, folder 12
Volgograd (Волгоград) OVERSIZE
Box 457, folder 1-5
Dnepropetrovsk (Днепропетровск)
Box 459, folder 2
Ivano-Frankovsk (Ивано-Франковск)
Box 466, folder 3-5
Voroshilovgrad (Ворошиловград)
Box 467, folder 1
Voroshilovgrad (Ворошиловград)
Box 467, folder 2
Zakarpatskaia oblast' (Закарпатская обл.)
Box 468, folder 3
Cherkassy (Черкассы) OVERSIZE
Box 468, folder 4
Dnepropetrovsk (Днепропетровск ) OVERSIZE
Box 468, folder 5
Donetsk (Донецк) OVERSIZE
Box 468, folder 6
Khar'kov (Харьков) OVERSIZE
Box 468, folder 8
Kirovograd (Кировоград) OVERSIZE
Box 469, folder 1-2
Lugansk (Луганск) OVERSIZE
Box 469, folder 5
Nikolaev (Николаев) OVERSIZE
Box 469, folder 6
Ternopol' (Тернополь) OVERSIZE
Box 470, folder 1
Voroshilovgrad (Ворошиловград) OVERSIZE
11.6. Autonomous Republics, Regions, and Districts in Russia
Box 445, folder 2-5
Altaiskii Krai (Алтайский Край)
Box 446, folder 1-3
Altaiskii Krai (Алтайский Край)
Box 449, folder 1
Evreiskaia oblast' (Еврейская обл.)
Box 449, folder 4
Iamalo-Nenetskii Okrug (Ямало-Ненецкий Округ)
Box 449, folder 5-6
Kabardino-Balkariq (Кабардино-Балкария)
Box 449, folder 8
Karachaevo-Cherkessiia (Карачаево-Черкессия)
Box 452, folder 4
Khanty-Mansiisk (Ханты-Мансийск)
Box 453, folder 2
Mariiskaia Respublika (Марийская Республика)
Box 453, folder 6-7
Primorskii Krai (Приморский Край)
Box 454, folder 1
Primorskii Krai (Приморский Край)
Box 455, folder 2
Tuvinskaia Respublika (Тувинская Республика)
11.7. Caucasian Republics
Box 476, folder 2-3
Azerbaidzhan (Aзербайджан)
11.8. Central Asian Republics
Box 482, folder 1
Tadzhikistan (Таджикистан)
Box 482, folder 2-3
Turkmenistan (Туркменистан )
Box 477, folder 1
Kazakhstan (Казакхстан) General
Box 477, folder 5
Atyrauskaia oblast' (Атырауская Обл.)
Box 478, folder 3
Dzhambul'skaia Oblast' (Джамбульская обл.)
Box 479, folder 5
Kyzylordinskaia oblast' (Кызылординская обл.)
Box 480, folder 2
Semipalatinsk (Семипалатинск)
Box 480, folder 3
Severo-Kazakhstanskaia oblast' (Северо-Казахстанская обл.)
Box 480, folder 5
Turgaiskaia oblast' (Тургайская обл.)
Box 480, folder 6
Vostochno-Kazakhstanskaia oblast' (Восточно-Казахстанская обл.)
Box 481, folder 1
Zapadno-Kazakhstanskaia oblast' (Западно-Казахстанская обл.)
11.10. Posters, books, periodicals, etc.
map-folder 367
Posters (homemade petition/collages- all from one tube mailer)
Box 377, folder 1
Souvenir postcards, booklets, art, etc. Russian
Box 378, Folder 7
Clippings mostly about AYD
11.11. Unsorted letters & telegrams
Box 497
Support letters (unsorted)
Box 498
Support letters (unsorted)
Box 499
Support letters (unsorted)
Series 12. Commonwealth countries
Scope and Contents
Contains files from Great Britain, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Researchers interested in specific countries or regions
should also refer to Series 2. support letters as arranged by NUCFAD files, as well as Series 3. Selected Correspondence.
Some artwork, publications & printed material has also been filed elsewhere.
Series 13. Asia / Middle East / Africa
Scope and Contents
Researchers interested in specific countries or regions should also refer to Series 2. support letters as arranged by NUCFAD
files, as well as Series 3. Selected Correspondence. Some artwork, publications & printed material has also been filed elsewhere.
box 344, folder 4
China (1 letter, 1 publication)
box 344, folder 7
Vietnam (includes publications)
box 344, folder 10
Algeria (2 packets from Spanish & Portuguese groups, mailed from Algeria)
box 344, folder 13
Ghana (includes two letters from Ghanian in Germany)
box 344, folder 14
Haute-Volta (Upper Volta - 1 letter)
box 344, folder 15
Kenya (3 letters, 2 containing East German petition cards)
box 344, folder 18
Mauritius (2 letters from Mauritius Young Communist League)
box 344, folder 25
Zambia (3 letters, 1 envelope)
box 344, folder 26
Zimbabwe (1 card, no personal message)
Series 14. Mexico / Central & South America / Carribean
Scope and Contents
Researchers interested in specific countries or regions should also refer to Series 2. support letters as arranged by NUCFAD
files, as well as Series 3. Selected Correspondence. Some artwork, publications & printed material has also been filed elsewhere.
box 345, folder 2
Dominican Republic (1 letter)
Box 384, folder 6
Publications, Spain & South America
Series 15. Publications, posters & other printed material
Scope and Contents
Much of the material covers Angela Davis and the Free Angela campaign, but many do not. More are filed under country of origin.
15.1. Article clippings, domestic & international
Box 378, folder 4
Clippings about AYD, mostly in English
Scope and Contents
Includes notes and attached correspondence (some anti-AYD)
Box 378, folder 5
Clippings mostly about AYD, Europe
Scope and Contents
includes bound proclamation from Prague with statements from World Federation of Trade Unions & World Federation of Teacher's
Unions along with clippings
Box 388, folder 2
Clippings re: AYD (oversize)
Box 382, folder 5
Magazine coverage of AYD - Jet, Time, Ramparts
Scope and Contents
Possibly sent to AYD
15.2. Newspaper clipping file (bound volumes)
Box 1
Newspaper clippings
December 5, 1970-January 17, 1971
Box 2
Newspaper clippings
January 17, 1971-February 16, 1971
Box 3
Newspaper clippings
February 17, 1971-March 1971
Box 4
Newspaper clippings
April 1971-May 16, 1971
Box 5
Newspaper clippings
May 17, 1971-June 16, 1971
Box 6
Newspaper clippings
June 17, 1971-July 14, 1971
Box 7
Newspaper clippings
July 15, 1971-August 25, 1971
Box 8
Newspaper clippings
August 26, 1971-October 10, 1971
Box 9
Newspaper clippings
October 11, 1971-December 1971
Box 10
Newspaper clippings
January 1972-February 1, 1972
Box 11
Newspaper clippings
February 1, 1972-February 19, 1972
Box 12
Newspaper clippings
February 20, 1972-March 2, 1972
Box 13
Newspaper clippings
March 3, 1972-March 19, 1972
Box 14
Newspaper clippings
March 17, 1972-April 3, 1972
Box 15
Newspaper clippings
April 4, 1972-April 20, 1972
Box 16
Newspaper clippings
April 21, 1972-May 8, 1972
Box 17
Newspaper clippings
May 9, 1972-May 29, 1972
Box 18
Newspaper clippings
May 30, 1972-June 5, 1972
15.3. Books & pamphlets by or about Angela Davis (international)
box 371
Sauver Angela! (Le Comite National Pour La Defense et la Liberation D'Angela Davis 1971)
box 371
Kampft Angela Davis frei! (Nationalen Front des demokratischen Deutschland)
box 371
Klaus Steiniger, Freiheit fur Angela Davis! Heldin des Anderen Amerika (Nationalrat der Nationalen Front)
box 371
Bill Conway, From Joan to Angela: A Bitter Ballad of Oppression and Martyrs (FAD Publishers, 1971)
box 371
Freiheit fur Angela Davis! (Initiativausschus Freiheit Fur Angela Davis)
box 371
Maximilian Scheer, Der Weg nach San Rafael (Nationalpreistrager Maximilian Scheer 1971)
box 371
Maximilian Scheer, Liebste Angela Erste unter Gleichen (Verlag der Nation, 1971)
box 371
A Poltical Biography of Angela Davis (National United Committee to Free Angela Davis)
box 371
Bail For Angela: Right without Remedy (National United Committee to Free Angela Davis)
box 371
Angela Davis, If They Come in the Morning (Third Press 1971)
box 371
Angela Davis, If They Come in the Morning (Signet 1971)
box 371
Angela Davis, S'ils frappent a l'aube (editions Gallimard 1972)
box 371
Angela Davis, If They Come in the Morning (Japanese translation by Gendai Hyoronsha, 1972)
box 371
Angela Davis parle (Editions Sociales 1971)
box 371
Angela Davis, Hvis de Kommer I Natt.. (Elan 1972)
box 371
Angela Davis, Als ze 's ochtends komen... (Pegasus 1972)
box 371
Angela Davis, Hvis de kommer om morgenen... (Forlaget Tiden 1972)
box 371
Angela Davis, La Rivolta Nera (Editori Riuniti 1972)
box 371
Angela Y. Davis, Si llegan por ti en la manana (Siglo veintiuno editores sa 1972)
box 371
Philip Sheldon Foner & György Makai, A Fekete Párducoké a szó (Kossuth Könyvkiadó, 1971)
box 371
Angela Davis Beszel (Kossuth Könyvkiadó, 1971)
box 371
Angela Davis, Materialien zur Rassenjustiz (Sammlung Luchterhand 1972)
box 371
Klaus Steiniger, Free Angela Davis, Hero of the Other America (National Council of the National Front of the GDR)
15.4. Political publications
Box 390, folder 1
Political magazines, newsletters, newspapers "111-New"
Scope and Contents
The 111th Cell v.1 n.1 May 1972 ; Berkeley Barb v.12 n.10 March 1971, v.14 n.5 Feb. 1972 [addressed to AYD] ; Berkeley Tribe
n.90 April 1971, n.91 April 1971, n.109 August-Sept. 1971 ; Black Guard (East Los Angeles College) April 1970 ; Black Perspective
(Staten Island Community College) v.2 n.1 November 1970 ; The Burning Spear Bulletin Jan. 1971, The Burning Spear v.2 n.1;
The Catholic Worker v.37 n.2 ; Contrast v.4 n.12 June 1972 ; The Daily Planet v.1 n.29 January 1971 ; Deganawidah Quetzalcoatl
University (Third World News special issue) v.1 n.21 April 1971 ; Fatigue Press n.28 ; Fremont District News March 1972 ;
The Great Speckled Bird v.4 n.3 January 1971 ; Inner-City Voice v.2 n.3 March 1970 ; The Ithacan February 1971 ; Manchester
Guardian Weekly v.13 n.25 ; Manitoban v.57 n.41 March 1971 ; New Press v.1 n.15 October 1970
Box 390, folder 2
Political magazines, newsletters, newspapers "Ou-Vo"
Scope and Contents
Our Choking Times (Ohio State University) v.1 n.6, v.2 n.1-2 1970-1971 ; Palante Latin Revolutionary News Service v.2 n.14-15
1970 ; Peace & Freedom Newsletter v.2 n.1 Feb. 1971 ; Peace & Freedom Partisan 1970 ; Penal Digest Internationa; v.1 ; People
Against Racism v.1 n.2 April 1970 ; The Petal Paper v.18 n.2 Dec. 1970 ; The Pittsburgh Fair Witness v.1 n.9 ; Red Times v.1
n.5 ; Right On! Black Community News Service v.1 n.11 Ja. 1972 ; San Francisco Good Times v.4 n.9, 13 1971 ; The Source/Sounds
of Venice March-April 1971 ; The South End (Wayne State University) v.61 n.39 October 1970 ; The Southern Patriot (Southern
Confernce Educational Fund) v.29 n.2-4 1971 ; The Spark (Australia) ; The Sun Reporter (San Francisco) v.29 n.5 ; Third World
News v. 1 n.22-25 1971 ; Voice of the Lumpen (Frankfurt, Germany: Revolutionary People's Communications Network) v.1 n.8 Oct.
1971
Box 376
Political magazines, newsletters, newspapers "A-W" (unfoldered)
Scope and Contents
Action News (St. Louis) Dec. 1970 ; American Institute for Marxist Studies Newsletter v.8 n.6 1971 ; Connections Newsletter
(San Francisco) v.1 n.8 January 1971 ; Fortune News (Fortune Society) April & June 1972 ; Hammer & Steel Newsletter n.2 March
1971 ; Hawaii Pono Journal v.1 n.4 October 1971 ; Inside & Outside the Plaza (Franklin Plaza Cooperative, East Harlem) v.
n.11-12 Jan.-Feb 1972 [AD cover] ; Francois Maspero catalogue January 1970 ; New England Free Press catalogue April 1971 ;
New Times: A Soviet Weekly of World Affairs 1971 ; Voices of Tomorrow: 24th Congress of CP of Societ Union (N.W.R. Press)
; Northern Neighbors n.173,175,176 1972 ; Off Our Backs v.1 n.14 December 1970 & calendar ; Pahana New World News Letter v.1
n.1 November 1970 ; Political Affairs: Journal of Marxist Thought & Analysis August 1972 ; Sanity Now Newsletter (La Puente,
CA) n.46 March 1971 ; Strong People, Strong Land n.2 June 1972 ; The Trumpet: Digest of Independent Liberal Thought v.4 n.2
Feb. 1971 ; (Women's International Democratic Federation: Documents and Information July 1971 [with press releases re: AD],
Women of the Whole World n.2, 4 1971 ; World Marxist Review 1963-1966 ; World Peace Council: New Perspectives v.2 n.1 1972,
booklet on GDR admission to UN ; Verde Olivo (Cuba) v.13 n.40 October 1971 [with newspaper clipping] ; Vocations for Social
Change n.21 1971 ; Washington Teachers Union v.1 n.5 Feb. 1971 [press release with clipping attached to verso] ; World Federation
of Trade Unions Press Communique no.4 January 1971
Box 378, folder 1
School publications (student newspapers, literary magazines, strike newsletters, etc.)
Scope and Contents
Converse v.3 n.1 (Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical University) January 1971 ; Cal State Los Angeles MEChA n.8 November
1970 ; Lynbrook (High School) News March 1972 ; Otika (UC Irvine) December 1970 ; The Perkins Journal (Clifton T. Perkins
State Hospital) v.2 n.2 Feb. 1972 ; UCLA Strike "The Three Wars" ; Strike Newspaper (Yale University) April 1970
Box 388, folder 4
Black Panther Party publications (some photocopies)
Scope and Contents
Unidentified PHD exam material also enclosed
Box 390, folder 3
Daily World v.3 n. 143, 144, 146, 147, 150, 153, 171 v.4 n.55
Box 390, folder 4
Guardian v.23 n.3-7, 13 (and reprint of AYD article), 14, 17, v.24 n.21, Liberated Guardian April 1970
Box 391, folder 1
The Militant v.35 n.10-12, v.36 n.5, 7, 10, 21 1971-1972
Box 391, folder 2
Muhammad Speaks v.10 n.5-8, v.11 n.8 1970-1971
Box 391, folder 3
NOMMO (UCLA) v.3 n.1, 2 1971 & bound volume containing v.3 n.1-13
Scope and Contents
Volume also contains letter from Allen Brooks
Box 391, folder 4
People's World v.33 n.33-36, 38, 40, 42, 43, 47, 50, 52 v.34 n.1-3, 6, 8-10, 14 1970-1971
Box 377
Tricontinental (Havana, Cuba: Executive Secretariat of Solidarity of the Peoples of Africa, Asia, and Latin America) (unfoldered)
Scope and Contents
No. 14, 15, 17, 18, 21-22, 23, 24, 48, 49, 52-53, 57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, 70, 71
Box 369
Miscellaneous books
Scope and Contents
From various countries, mostly in English
Box 382, Folder 2
Material removed from support letters
15.5. Posters, fliers, handbills
Box 489, folder 10
Free Angela rally/demonstration fliers etc.
Box 491, folder 1
Posters from NUCFAD files
15.6. Other printed material (statements, cards, stickers, brochures, fliers, petitions, etc.)
Box 375, folder 5
Australia, Mexico, Russia
Series 16. Photographs
Scope and Contents
Very small series - there are not many photographs in collection, but some are also filed under country of origin.
Box 379, folder 18
George & Jean Edwards "of the Cleveland Committee" with photos of Franklyn Alexander at rally
1971-12
Scope and Contents
Photo is stamped "Studio 35" on back
Box 379, folder 12
Photographs of Free Angela rally in France with Fania Jordan
Scope and Contents
Stamped Gerald Bloncort on back
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Davis, Fania
Box 379, folder 13
Scrapbook of clippings of Fania Jordan in Prague, with photograph of rally
Scope and Contents
"Mitink solidarity s Angelou Davisovou ... Foto CTK- J. Karas"
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Davis, Fania
Box 382, folder 2
Photographs removed from support letters
Box 485, folder 7
Photographs included with support letters
Series 17. Art, music, poetry
Scope and Contents
Representative samples, for the most part. More are filed under country of origin.
Box 309, Folder 1
Scrapbooks and art, German
Box 309, Folder 2
Scrapbooks and art, Russian
Box 312
Artwork, collages, etc., German
Box 360
Art, poetry, large cards, etc. - U.S.
Box 384, folder 4
Sheet music for songs for or inspired by AYD
Scope and Contents
Includes "Los Pachungos" by Jose Arzamendia ; "Die Gedanken Sind Frei" adapted for Davis by Waldemar Hille & Arthur Kevess
; "Song for Angela Davis" by Alan Bush with poem by Nancy Bush
Box 386, folder 1
Misc. artwork (non-political)
Box 386, folder 2
Youth/student art - Europe/USSR
Box 386, folder 3
Youth/student art & poetry - U.S.
Box 387, folder 1
International Union of Students statement & posters
Box 388, folder 1
Youth/student art - San Francisco Bay Area
Box 389, folder 5
Youth/student artwork - USSR
Box 389, folder 6
Youth/student artwork - U.S.
Box 389, folder 7
Painting of African revolutionary by Kofi Bailey, inscribed to AYD
Creator: Bailey, Herman Kofi, Jr., 1931-1981
Box 484
Ceramic wallhanging depicting Tommie Smith and John Carlos' Black Power salute during 1968 Olympics. Inscription in German
on back
Box 485, folder 6
Poetry & short prose
Scope and Contents
Includes Janice Mirikitani poem
Box 383
Audiovisual media
Scope and Contents
Moscow Pioneer Ensemble LP ; open reel tapes - "Free Angela - Music by Leonid Pechnikov, Sung by Leonid Karpinski" -- "No.
I. OK'd Audition Tape - Dellis Record Co." -- [unlabeled 3" reel] -- "Musical Tape" and strip of tape wound around pencil,
from Ed Hogans.
Other commercial sound recordings from the original collection may have been transferred to Stanford's Archive of Recorded
Sound.
Series 18. Banners, scarves & gifts
Scope and Contents
Most banners are homemade and include signatures, slogans, drawings and pasted items. Majority are from East Germany and USSR.
18.1. Fabric banners, scarves, pendants, etc.
18.2. Gifts (scarves, plastic flowers, jewelry, charms, trinkets, etc.)
Series 20. Telegrams & petitions, unsorted
Scope and Contents
Both domestic and international. Some filed under country of origin.
Box 359
Telegrams (U.S. & international)
Scope and Contents
Some telegrams filed in other series.