Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

124 c   (BLACK PANTHERS.) Pair of Angela Davis handbills for speaking appearances after her academic rein- statement. Each 11 x 8 1 / 2 inches; minimal wear, light fold in the second handbill. Vp, 24 October [1969] [600/900] Angela Davis had been fired from her position as a philosophy professor at UCLA because of her Com- munist Party membership. On 20 October 1969, she was reinstated. 4 days later she was booked for these two lecture appearances in northern California, one at noon and the other at 8 p.m. “Angela Davis . . . Herbert Marcuse . . . Lower Sproul.” Advertising a joint lecture by two famous leftist professors of philosophy at the University of California in Berkeley; printed in red and black. [Berkeley, CA] * “Angela Davis Speaks! . . . Roosevelt Jr. High School.” San Jose, CA.