Given that we are now in march and it’s woman’s history month, this final hidden history on the civil rights struggle is devoted to Angela Davis.
Angela Davis is often associated with the Black Panthers and with the black power politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Like them, she suffered the interest of J Edgar Hoover’s infamous COINTELPRO program. A communist party member, she was denied tenure because of her political beliefs, and on August 18, 1970, Davis became the third woman to appear on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives List. She spent months on the lam for purchasing a shotgun used in the abduction of Judge Harold Haley who was murdered during a botched effort to free a convict.
