![]() 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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