A new exhibit, curated from Angela Davis’ personal archive
There are two small black-and-white headshots of a young woman with a large afro, one dated 1969, one 1970, topped by these lines: Wanted by the FBI Interstate Flight — Murder, Kidnaping [sic] Angela Yvonne Davis The infamous poster from 1970 is one of the artifacts on view at “Angela Davis: Freed by the People,” a new exhibition at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. Curated from Davis’ archive, the exhibition showcases the complex and storied activist, author, and scholar beyond the headlines that defined her rise to fame as an icon of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s. “We’re trying to show our visitors the side of Angela Davis that might be more familiar, but also the more personal and intimate side of her,” said Elizabeth Hinton, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences and associate professor of history and African and African American studies, who organized the exhibition with...