Angela Davis (1944- )
The October 12, 1970, issue of Nommo, a Black student newspaper based at the University of California, Los Angeles, is dedicated to Angela Davis (1944-), who had until recently been teaching at the university. Davis was known as a political activist, academic, Communist, Black Panther and, at the time, was listed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitive List (the following day Davis was arrested). Her trial and subsequent acquittal for facilitating the kidnapping and death of a Superior Court judge in Marin County, California, became an international cause célèbre. This issue of Nommo includes the text of Davis’s first lecture at UCLA, poetry written in her honor and the cover pictures a mural recently completed by Black art students. Davis would later teach at numerous institutions including Pomona College, San Francisco State University, Rutgers University and the University of California, Santa Cruz.
