Guide to the Angela Davis trial, 1972-1974

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/

Guide to the Angela Davis trial, 1972-1974

Collection number: M0308

Department of Special Collections and University Archives

Stanford University Libraries

Stanford, California

Contact Information

Department of Special Collections
Green Library
Stanford University Libraries
Stanford, CA 94305-6004
Phone: (650) 725-1022
Email: speccoll@sulmail.stanford.edu
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/

Processed by:: Sara Timby
Date Completed:: 1979 Aug. 15

Descriptive Summary

Title: Angela Davis trial,

Date (inclusive): 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

Note

Cassette tapes

Box 4, Folder 1

Trial notes:

Physical Description: 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,

Physical Description: (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

Physical Description: 38 pp by National United Committee to free Angela Davis.

5. nd Stop the Grand Jury

Physical Description: 4 pp.

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

Physical Description: 11 pp.

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

Physical Description: 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,

Physical Description: 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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