**Free Angela**

**Synopsis**

Angela Davis, born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama, became a master scholar who studied at the Sorbonne. She joined the U.S. Communist Party and was jailed for charges related to a prison outbreak, though ultimately cleared. Known for books like Women, Race & Class, she has worked as a professor and activist who advocates gender equity, prison reform and alliances across color lines

**Early Life**

Writer, activist and educator Angela Davis was born on January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama. Davis is best known as a radical African-American educator and activist for civil rights and other social issues. She knew about racial prejudice from her experiences with discrimination growing up in Alabama. As a teenager, Davis organized interracial study groups, which were broken up by the police. She also knew several of the young African-American girls killed in the Birmingham church bombing of 1963.

"Free Angela" Sung By Larry Saunders The Prophet of Soul (1971)

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Academic Career

Davis later moved north and went to Brandeis University in Massachusetts where she studied philosophy with Herbert Marcuse. As a graduate student at the University of California, San Diego, in the late 1960s, she joined several groups, including the Black Panthers. But she spent most of her time working with the Che-Lumumba Club, which was all-black branch of the Communist Party.

Hired to teach at the University of California, Los Angeles, Davis ran into trouble with the school's administration because of her association with communism. They fired her, but she fought them in court and got her job back. Davis still ended up leaving when her contract expired in 1970.

Soledad Brothers

Outside of academia, Davis had become a strong supporter of three prison inmates of Soledad Prison known as the Soledad brothers (they were not related). These three men -- John W. Cluchette, Fleeta Drumgo and George Lester Jackson -- were accused of killing a prison guard after several African-American inmates had been killed in a fight by another guard. Some thought these prisoners were being used as scapegoats because of the political work within the prison.

During Jackson's trial in August 1970, an escape attempt was made and several people in the courtroom were killed. Davis was brought up on several charges, including murder, for her alleged part in the event. There were two main pieces of evidence used at trial: the guns used were registered to her, and she was reportedly in love with Jackson. After spending roughly 18 months in jail, Davis was acquitted in June 1972.

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***Larry Saunders***

“She had a lot of things that moved her toward me, and sympathetically, I began to write some of the things that I heard and some of the things that I believed,” Sanders says. “My manager, he came up with the other things such as the Angela Davis Committee. The record didn’t cost but a dollar, and 50 cents went to her. I wrote the song for Angela Davis because she was a homegirl, and a lot of the things that they had on the news…I had my opinion about that.” – Larry Saunders, The Prophet of Soul

***Larry Saunders***

Larry W. Sanders, Prophet of Soul, departed this life on February 6, 2012, peacefully. He leaves behind a great legacy of music, above all, Love, Hope, Peace and Joy for others. He was the founder and president of the Next Step Youth Enrichment Program which included Wednesday Bible Study, various field trips and activities for the children he mentored, along with Kingdom Covenant Connection, Ms. Theola Bright. He is also the Founder and President of Ro-la Records, a Great Musician, Recording Artist and Producer for over forty years, which included songs like: Stranger, Free Angela, and Where Did Peace Go, just to name a few.

He was preceded in death by his daughter Larie Sanders, mother, Louise Sanders White; two earthly fathers, Alvin White and Johnny Ace; sister, Gertrude Pettaway; brother, Mantheria Sanders; niece, Malinda Sapp. He leaves to cherish his beautiful memories a very loving and devoted wife and friend, Mrs. Cheryl Sanders; 3 sons, Fraiche (Monette) Bosby, Montgomery, AL, Larry Sanders, Jr. , and loving and devoted son, Melvin Sanders, both of Mobile, AL; 8 daughters, Rhonda (Andrew) Dove, Melissa Sanders Whitlock and Leiah, all of Atlanta, GA, Julia Sanders Jackson, Virginia, Sonya Ceballos, Tampa, FL, Nira (Chris) Dale, Florence, AL, Music Artist LEDISI

and Barroneece Sanders, both of California; four sisters, Barroneece Prince, Grand Rapids, MI, Apostle Lynn White, Olive Branch, MS, Juanita Major, Washington, DC and a very loving and devoted baby sister, Jadaa (David) Lewis, of Mobile, AL; 12 grandchildren; 3 great grandchildren; a host of nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends. His remains will lie in state Friday, February 10, 2012, from 1:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at Small’s Mortuary, Mobile. Visitation will be held Saturday, February 11, 2012, at Small’s from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 noon and the funeral will be at 2:00 p.m. at Cedar Street Baptist Church, Saraland, AL. The interment will follow in Pine Crest Cemetery, Dauphin Island Parkway, Mobile,

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6. Februar 2012

R.I.P...We Will Never Forget You!!!

**Later Years**

After spending time traveling and lecturing, Davis returned to teaching. Today, she is a professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where she teaches courses on the history of consciousness. Davis is the author of several books, including Women, Race, and Class (1980) and Are Prisons Obsolete? (2003).