N.Y. Committee to Free Angela Davis, 1971. This pamphlet, published by the New York Committee To Free Angela Davis, contains the first two lectures of Davis’s course Recurring Philosophical Themes in Black Literature, which she taught in 1969 at UCLA. In the introduction, written and signed by Davis’s UCLA colleagues from multiple departments, they lament how Davis has become “a prisoner of the society that should have welcomed her talents, her honesty, and the contribution she was making toward understanding and resolving the most critical problem of that society – the division between its oppressors and its oppressed”. This object, a reproduction of a text that is widely and freely read and distributed online, is a testimony of Angela Davis’s unrelenting academic and political work towards understanding and dismantling systems of oppression and enslavement that still keep people from their freedom. Part of the efforts of the Free Angela Davis movement, it reminds us of Davis’s work to ensure that her struggle and fight served to end mass incarceration and free political prisoners everywhere.

Pamphlet, staple bound, 24 pp. Signed by the author on the cover. Pink wraps and black ink, apart from a few light creases in the cover, in near fine condition. Protected in a pink and cream book-shaped box with title on spine. Lightest wear to corners. Extremely scarce.