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Title: Angela Davis and the "Detroit 16" Held in Prison
Date Created and/or Issued: 1970-12-16T08:00:00Z
Publication Information: Chapman University Digital Commons
Contributing Institution: Chapman University, Frank Mt. Pleasant Library of Special Collections and Archives
Collection: UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980
Rights Information: copyrighted
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Description: Detroit: Fania Davis, sister of Angela Davis, speaks to approximately 50 members of the Michigan Committee to Free Angela Davis at an outdoor rally in downtown Detroit 12/16. After Fania spoke the group marched to the Wayne County Jail chanting 'Free Angela Davis' and 'Free the Detroit 16'. Miss Davis is in a New York prison fighting extradition to California where she faces charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. The 'Detroit 16' are being held in the Wayne County Jail as a result of a disturbance between police and Black Panthers last 10/24 after a Detroit policeman was fatally shot.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Identifier: https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/upi_african_american/253
Subject: African Americans
History
United States
Prejudice
Desegregation
Civil rights movement
Black Panthers
African American Studies
United States History
Source: UPI - The African American Experience 1930-1980

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