In the aftermath of that bloody event, she was charged with three capital offenses, including murder.Īngela Davis included in a mural in Brooklyn, N.Y., along with Martin Luther King Jr. In August 1970 - after Jackson’s younger brother, Jonathan, used firearms registered to Davis in a takeover of a Marin County courthouse that left four people dead - Davis immediately came under suspicion. One, George Jackson, was an activist and writer whom Davis befriended upon joining a committee challenging the charges.
She had recently become close to a trio of Black inmates nicknamed the Soledad Brothers (after the California prison in which they were held) who had been charged with the murder of a white prison guard in January 1970. Sign Upįor the mural’s context, we have to return to the fall of 1969, when Davis, then an assistant professor in the philosophy department at the University of California, Los Angeles, was fired at the beginning of the school year for her membership in the Communist Party, and then, after a court ruled the termination illegal, fired again nine months later for using “inflammatory rhetoric” in public speeches. THE T LIST: A weekly roundup of what the editors of T Magazine are noticing and coveting right now.
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