How an FBI Wanted poster turned Angela Davis into a symbol of Black Power and liberation. How did an FBI Wanted poster, intended to make a criminal out of activist and academic Angela Y.

Herb Bruce, Free Angela, 1971. Poster. (Lisbet Tellefsen Archive/Oakland Museum of California) In a recorded interview for the exhibition, the 78-year-old Davis recalls that traumatic time in 1970 ...

This look was more akin to her FBI “Most Wanted” poster in the 1970s, when she was wanted for kidnapping and murder. Angela Davis was stunned. When Henry Louis Gates Jr., host of PBS’s ...

“Angela Davis is at the intersection of feminism ... including an FBI “Wanted” poster from the eight weeks Davis spent underground before her arrest at a New York City motel.