{"product_id":"1971-angela-davis-special-issue-on-angela-davis-imprisonment","title":"1971 ANGELA DAVIS. Special Issue of Freedomways on Angela Davis Imprisonment, Civil Rights, \u0026c.","description":"\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 0in;\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eFreedomways: A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003e is widely regarded as the preeminent intellectual, political, and cultural journal of the mid-to-late twentieth-century Black liberation struggle. \u003cspan class=\"citation-21\"\u003ePublished 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.\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"margin-top: 0in;\" data-path-to-node=\"1\" id=\"p-rc_2703b68aa1d55f93-25\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: 'Arial',sans-serif;\"\u003eThis specific issue is a critical example, being published at the absolute height of the global \"Free Angela Davis\" campaign. \u003cspan class=\"citation-20\"\u003eDavis 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.\u003c\/span\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents 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]; \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[Angela Davis] Freedomways. A Quarterly Review of the Freedom Movement. Vol. 11, No. 2. 1971. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVery good in original wraps; exceptionally tight and clean with some light handling and shelf soil to covers. A near fine example. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Specs Fine Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51001612763172,"sku":null,"price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0093\/3910\/9435\/files\/07-03-2026SpecsFineBooks-6.jpg?v=1783104647","url":"https:\/\/specsfinebooks.com\/products\/1971-angela-davis-special-issue-on-angela-davis-imprisonment","provider":"Specs Fine Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}