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In the summer of 1969, W.L. Nolen, a 25-year-old inmate at Soledad prison in California who had been convicted in 1963 for robbery, began circulating a petition to file a lawsuit against the prison's superintendent, Cletus J. Fitzharris. Nolen's petition charged that guards and officials at the facility knew of "existing social and racial ...
Angela Davis was born on January 26, 1944, [8] in Birmingham, Alabama.She was christened at her father's Episcopal church. [9] Her family lived in the "Dynamite Hill" neighborhood, which was marked in the 1950s by the bombings of houses in an attempt to intimidate and drive out middle-class black people who had moved there.
On January 29, 1972, Garrett B. Trapnell hijacked a TWA plane flying from Los Angeles to New York. He demanded $306,800 (equivalent to $2,234,734 in 2023), the release of the imprisoned Angela Davis, and a conversation with President Nixon. [3]
In early 1972, Davis' lawyers managed to get her released on bail. In June, she was acquitted of all charges, with the jury finding that she was not at all involved in the courthouse ambush.
Angela Davis is known for being very vocal about advocating for the oppressed. She’s an award-winning author, an advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and prison reform, and an international lecturer.
February 18 – The California Supreme Court voids the state's death penalty, commuting all death sentences to life in prison. February 21–28 – U.S. President Richard Nixon makes an unprecedented 8-day visit to the People's Republic of China and meets with Mao Zedong. February 23 – Activist Angela Davis is released from jail.
Davis became a millionaire by the age of 25 — though her methods landed her a 12-and-a-half-year prison sentence for bank fraud. After serving nine years of that sentence, she was released in 2017.
Ruchell Cinque Magee (born Ruchell Lewis; 17 March 1939 – October 17, 2023) was an American man who spent most of his life in prison. [1] [2] He pled guilty to aggravated kidnapping in the August 7, 1970 Marin County Civic Center courthouse attacks in San Rafael, California.