Flyer Promoting a Rally for Angela Davis Day: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

This flyer advertises a rally for Angela Davis Day. The flyer is yellow with black text and features an image of Angela Davis. The flyer reads: [END / RACISM & / REPRESSION / GET IT TOGETHER AT / CENTRAL PARK MALL FOR / ANGELA DAVIS / DAY SEPTEMBER 25 / 1 TO 4 P.M. ENTER AT 5TH AVE. / AND 72ND STREET / DEMAND BAIL FOR ANGELA / INDICT ROCKEFELLER FOR THE / ATTICA MASSACRE / NOW! / HEAR: CONG. RONALD DELLUMS OSSIE DAVIS / MRS. SALLYE DAVIS DICK GREGORY / and others / SPONSORED BY THE UNITED COALITION FOR ANGELA DAVIS DAY / FOR FURTHER INOFRMATION, CALL 243-8555]. The back of the flyer is blank except for a stamped date that reads [SEP 24 1971].

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: September 1971
• Created by: Third World Women's Alliance, American, 1968 - 1980
• Subject of: Angela Y. Davis, American, born 1944
• Subject of: Ron Dellums, American, born 1935
• Subject of: Ossie Davis, American, 1917 - 2005
• Subject of: Dick Gregory, American, 1932 - 2017
• Subject of: Sallye Bell Davis, American, 1914 - 2007
• Type: advertisements
• Medium: ink on paper
• Dimensions: H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm)
• Place used: New York City, New York, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Activism
• Topic: Black power
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Women
• Object number: 2015.97.27.201
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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