Guide to the Angela Davis trial,
1972-1974
M0308
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, California, 94305
Repository email: speccollref@stanford.edu
© 1999
Title: Angela Davis trial
Identifier/Call Number: M0308
Contributing Institution:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
4.0 Linear feet
Date (inclusive): 1972-1974
creator:
Timothy, Mary
Scope and Content
Trial transcripts, tape recordings of impressions of the daily trial proceedings, articles and newsclippings about the trial
and Ms. Davis, photographs of the jury, and letters received by Mary Timothy. The material covers the period of the trial
(January - June 1972) and the post-trial period, which includes articles published primarily in 1972 as well as Mary Timothy's
own account of the trial and the jury system, JURY WOMAN.
Biographical Note
Mary Timothy was foreperson of the 1972 Angela Davis trial jury.
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item] Angela Davis trial, M0308, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford,
Calif.
Provenance
Gift of Ellen Timothy, 1979.
Publication Rights
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.
Access Restrictions
No restrictions.
Carton 1
Trial transcript:
Jan 10 1972 - March 17 1972
Carton 2
Trial transcript:
March 27 1972 - April 27 1972
Carton 3
Trial transcript:
May 1 1972 - June 1 1972
Carton 4, Folder 1
Trial notes:
Physical Description:
3 small notepads and ca. 100 3 x 5 typed cards.
Carton 4, Folder 2
Correspondence (Miscellaneous to Mrs. Timothy)
Carton 4, Folder 3
Correspondence - Hate mail
Carton 4, Folder 4
Big Times interview (unedited)
Carton 4, Folder 5
Two xerox copies of
Jury Woman ms.
Palo Alto, CA, Emty Press,
1974.
Carton 4, Folder 8
Typed ms (carbon copy) Mrs. Drumgo (Fleeta Drumgo's mother)
Interview with Ralph DeLange - a juror during the Angela Davis trial Xerox. In
Guild by Association, National Lawyers' Guild, Santa Clara Valley Chapter,
Physical Description:
(3 copies).
Carton 4, Folder 9
1. Frame up The opening defense statement made by Angela Y. Davis.
March 27, 1972.
2. Peace, Friendship, solidarity Angela Davis in the GDR.
3. A political biography of Angela Davis.
4. Freed by the people
1972 Aug 7
Physical Description:
38 pp by National United Committee to free Angela Davis.
5. Stop the Grand Jury
Undated
Physical Description:
4 pp.
6. Form letter from National Alliance against racist and political repression.
1974 Jan 7
Physical Description:
11 pp.
7. Black Workers and the class struggle by Roscoe Proctor, New York, New Outlook Publications,
1972 Feb
Physical Description:
37 pp.
Carton 4, Folder 10
1. Angela Davis talks about her future and her freedom in
Jet pg. 54-57.
1972 Jul 27
2. Death in the van in
Newsweek, pg 33-34.
1972 Apr 17
3. The Angela Davis case: behind the verdict in
Newsweek, pg.30.
1972 Jun 19
4. Angela's triumphant acquittal in
Time, pg 18.
1972 Jun 12
5. From the jury box book review of
Juror number four by Edwin Kennebeck in
Newsweek pg. 84.
1973 Feb 26
6. Crime and Justice from
The Stanford Observor by Anthony G. Amsterdam,
1972 Aug.
Physical Description:
3 pp.
7. The IQ Bias BAttle by Jim Wood in San Francisco Sunday
Chronicle.
1972 Sep 24
8. Whither thou goest by Ron Rosenbaum in
Esquire.
nd July
9. Angela Davis, from Birmingham to San JOse by Frank Stella in
Fusion, pg. 24-25.
1972 July
10. Experiments behind bars: doctors, drug companies, and prisoners by Jessica Mitford in
The Atlantic.
1973 Jan
Carton 4, Folder 11
Newsclippings - Trial and aftermath and related incidents.
Carton 4, Folder 12 - 28
Newsclippings - Trial and aftermath and related incidents.
Audio Tapes
Note
Tapes 4a, 4b, and 11, do not seem to be related to the trial, but are medical education recordings.
Box 5, Audiocassette 1
Alternate Juror,
March 16, 1972
Box 5, Audiocassette 2
Jury Selection,
March 21, 1972
Box 5, Audiocassette 5
Testimony, Wednesday,
April 5 1972
Box 5, Audiocassette 6
Monday, April 10, 1972
April 10, 1972
Box 5, Audiocassette 10
May 22, 1972 (First day of defense)
Box 5, Audiocassette 12
Mary Timothy, author of "Jury Woman," interviewed on Art Finley Show, KGO Radio, SF, 1/2/75
01/2/1975
Note
There are six copies of Tape 12 in the box.
Box 5, Audiocassette 13
Library Speech, Mary Timothy, Palo Alto [no date]
no date
