1971 ANGELA DAVIS. Special Issue of Freedomways on Angela Davis Imprisonment, Civil Rights, &c.

Freedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement is widely regarded as the preeminent intellectual, political, and cultural journal of the mid-to-late twentieth-century Black liberation struggle. Published in Harlem from 1961 to 1985 and shaped by vital minds like Esther Cooper Jackson and W.E.B. Du Bois, it served as a crucial bridge between the civil rights movement, the Black Arts Movement, and international anti-colonial struggles, intentionally positioning Black artists and writers as the central guides of political action.

This specific issue is a critical example, being published at the absolute height of the global "Free Angela Davis" campaign. Davis had been arrested in late 1970 on politically charged conspiracy and murder charges, and during 1971, she was incarcerated awaiting the 1972 trial that would ultimately acquit her. The original portrait illustration of Davis on the cover represents a direct, real-time artifact of Black radical protest art and international solidarity networks. It captures a defining moment when the journal shifted its formidable theoretical weight toward the intersection of the Black Power movement, the penal system, and political repression. 

Contents include: Jensinism. The New Pseudoscience of Racism by Dorothy Burnham; Free Angela Davis! [p.139]; The Steelworkers Strike in North Carolina  by Carl E. Farris; To a Black Schoolmate by Lee Jenkins; For Angela Davis by Henri Percikow [p.209]; 

[Angela Davis] Freedomways. A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement. Vol. 11, No. 2. 1971. 

Very good in original wraps; exceptionally tight and clean with some light handling and shelf soil to covers. A near fine example.