Free Angela Movement Analysis

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Addressing civil rights as well as women's rights, poverty, healthcare and prison reform when it was in the eye of the public in 1970. Her activism for prisoner is what led her to jail time and the trend of the “Free Angela Movement”. Being charged with conspiracy, murder was a death sentence in California, so she fled and disguised herself so she wouldn't be seen. In 1970 the FBI captured Davis at the hotel. Spending 14 months in jail open her eyes to the black political struggle in the United States. Realizing she have being with with different communities and organization on campuses against political repression Davis found herself as a victim. Davis see that prison are intensifies with racism, sexism, shaming, and powering. In the

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