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Davis (Angela) Trial

Department of Special Collections

Green Library
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
Phone: (650) 725-1022
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/
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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Angela Davis trial, 1972-1974

Collection number:
Special Collections M0308

Creator:
Timothy, Mary.

Extent:
4 linear ft.

Repository:
Stanford University. Libraries. Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives.

Language:
English.

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

None.

Publication Rights

Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections.

Provenance

Gift of Ellen Timothy, 1979.

Preferred Citation:

[Identification of item] Angela Davis trial, M0308, Dept. of Special Collections, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

Biographical Note

Mary Timothy was foreperson of the 1972 Angela Davis trial jury.

Scope and Content

Trial transcripts, tape recordings of impressions of the daily trial proceedings, articles and newsclippings about the trial and Ms. Davis, photographs of the jury, and letters received by Mary Timothy. The material covers the period of the trial (January - June 1972) and the post-trial period, which includes articles published primarily in 1972 as well as Mary Timothy's own account of the trial and the jury system, JURY WOMAN.

Container List

[ Box 1 ]
Trial transcript:  Jan 10 1972 - March 17 1972 

[ Box 2 ]
Trial transcript:  March 27 1972 - April 27 1972 

[ Box 3 ]
Trial transcript:  May 1 1972 - June 1 1972 

Cassette tapes

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 1 ]
Trial notes: 3 small notepads and ca. 100 3×5 typed cards.

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 2 ]
Correspondence (Miscellaneous to Mrs. Timothy)

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 3 ]
Correspondence - Hate mail

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 4 ]
Big Times interview (unedited)

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 5 ]
Two xerox copies of Jury Woman ms.

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 6 ]
Timothy, Mary





Jury Woman





Palo Alto, CA, Emty Press,  1974. 

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 7 ]
Photographs

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 8 ]
Typed ms (carbon copy) Mrs. Drumgo (Fleeta Drumgo's mother)





Interview with Ralph DeLange - a juror during the Angela Davis trial Xerox. In Guild by Association, National Lawyers' Guild, Santa Clara Valley Chapter, (3 copies).

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 9 ]
1. Frame up The opening defense statement made by Angela Y. Davis.  March 27, 1972. 

2. Peace, Friendship, solidarity Angela Davis in the GDR.

3. A political biography of Angela Davis.

4.  1972 Aug 7  Freed by the people . 38 pp by National United Committee to free Angela Davis.

5.  nd  Stop the Grand Jury . 4 pp.

6.  1974 Jan 7 Form letter from National Alliance against racist and political repression. 11 pp.

7.  1972 Feb  Black Workers and the class struggle by Roscoe Proctor, New York, New Outlook Publications, 37 pp.

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 10 ]
1.  1972 Jul 27  Angela DAvis talks about her future and her freedom in Jet pg. 54-57.

2.  1972 Apr 17  Death in the van in Newsweek, pg 33-34.

3.  1972 Jun 19  The Angela DAvis case: behind the verdict in Newsweek, pg.30.

4.  1972 Jun 12  Angela's triumphant acquittal in Time, pg 18.

5.  1973 Feb 26  From the jury box book review of Juror number four by Edwin Kennebeck in Newsweek pg. 84.

6.  1972 Aug.  Crime and Justice from The Stanford Observor by Anthony G. Amsterdam, 3 pp.

7.  1972 Sep 24  The IQ Bias BAttle by Jim Wood in San Francisco Sunday Chronicle.

8.  nd July  Whither thou goest by Ron Rosenbaum in Esquire.

9.  1972 July  Angela Davis, from Birmingham to San JOse by Frank Stella in Fusion, pg. 24-25.

10.  1973 Jan  Experiments behind bars: doctors, drug companies, and prisoners by Jessica Mitford in The Atlantic.

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 11 ]
Newsclippings - Trial and aftermath and related incidents.

[ Box 4 ]
[ Folder 12 - 28 ]
Newsclippings - Trial and aftermath and related incidents.

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