How an FBI Poster Became a Black Power Symbol | The Bigger Picture with Vincent Brown | PBS
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- How did an FBI Wanted poster, intended to make a criminal out of activist and academic Angela Y. Davis, transform her into a symbol of Black Power and liberation? Host Vincent Brown considers the impact of Davis’ image and the ways in which style can be a form of political activism. Professor Davis also shares her own complicated feelings about the image, which have evolved over the past 50 years.
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Images can tell powerful stories. One iconic photograph can symbolize an entire era. But if we expand the frame and examine the moment in which it was taken, a very different story can emerge. In this series of documentary shorts, Harvard University historian Dr. Vincent Brown meets with curators, photographers and other experts to challenge common assumptions about iconic American images.
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They’d still lock this woman up as an elder but won’t arrest Emmit tills murderer
What?
Uh huh… double triple bias standard in the country is criminal 😢😮..
Hatred is sick!
We could do better 😮
Agreed.
Or the woman who got him killed.
Emmit murders are Dead but last time I heard that white woman is still alive
My Mother was arrested and held overnight over that poster. She was a Teen catching a bus and was detained and it took my Grandparents 24 hours to even find her. They used that poster to harass any black woman that resembled Professor Davis.
Thanks for sharing!
WOW.That was crazy !!! Didn't know anything like that happened,ever.No actual crime committed by your motherjust basically kidnapped by the cops.
Brahman take a look at a transparent government. We in the belly of a beast.
Maybe she shouldn’t have been so radical🧢🤡. You get a face tattoo and act out in public you going to be treated and assumed based on that image/costume you assembled as who you are. Rap about killing and being a criminal...yet cry about people mimicking that person and being treated a certain way🦥. People buying ripped jeans they ain’t wearing pants down, just like they ain’t just forgot to cut their hair and it became a Afro....
@@lastlime3792 go cry about it
My own sister was questioned by FBI at her college. Even though my sister looked nothing like Angela. The reason because my sister had an afro. My sister now is a retired attorney.
🙌🏿👍
It’s funny you should say that because my daughter was mistaken for a young lady that looks absolutely nothing like her. The only similarities was they both had braids. They had different skin tones and different eye colors. The way they speak was different. My daughter has a Midwestern accent, and the other young lady’s parents are from a country over in Africa, and she has a slight accent from her parents’ country. But I guess in Tennessee they sound the same. My daughter wear glasses and the other young lady didn’t. But the cop at the high school swore up-and-down my daughter was this young lady.
Who cares
As a white boy the afro still holds its place a symbol of black empowerment to me and I love seeing it. Also think its beautiful! Always be proud of who you are.
You should be proud of who you are too
😑
@@laszlo3283 no. That's white supremacy.
White is a fiction son. Black is similar fiction son. Fiction of a status son. Private is ownership notice. Copyright protected.
I wear a big afro and I get hated on by my own race 😔
Love how yall said the full name “The Black Panther Party for Self Defense”
Yes!!! I had the same thought! I wish everyone would take the time to research the amazing and inspiring beginnings of the Black Panther Party...begun by Bobby Seals Huey Newton and later, Eldredge Cleaver (I don't remember which two came first).
We need to know our history.
Don't forget as well Fred Hampton (I highly recommend seeing "Judas & the Black Messiah").
I realize people have short attention spans these days but this deserves a longer exploration -- also have to say I'm grateful to have grown up in the days when Angela Davis meant more than her afro.
Agreed
@@terrenceharris-hughes4436 The thing is black ppl, The power structure made a conscious decision, that the afro had to go , that why they used Diana Ross
at the poster child , for straight black hair , nothing changes .
Thank you. The days when the Panthers, the Young Lords had breakfast/food programs for those who, in those days, didn’t have or had No access to Pantries. Food Kitchens or ‘food stamps’ Either some weren’t aware enough of that and all that transpired or didn’t care to remember. We.are the Record Keepers who have that knowledge
I do not get back to every post I have done in time because they are many, but "Yes", the other sister you stated was for our people, you can not leave out our sister that these folks had to try to destroy, but since they could not destroy her they shipped her out to Cuba, I am a man but I will have to confess, there are many women that have been overlooked because of some the teachings of some coming up.
This is a nice introduction. For the folks who care to know more can easily find it
Angela is so beautiful, even in the fake mug shot. Her style is forever iconic. Respect! 🔥
forever my queen
Yes, she is a philosopher and an activist but she looks like a movie star.
Hello Mr Brown. My name is David Crawford and Angela helped me as a child immensely when she lived next door to us on 90th Avenue in Oakland. I wanted to thank her personally for her kindness and support for me as a young black child born in Germany as my father was in the Military. We moved to Oakland and she helped me to navigate coming from Europe to the hood. She saved my life and I wanted to thank her personally. Could you possibly send her this message from me.? Thank you very much.
I am sure she would love to hear from you. She is at UC- Santa Cruz. Look her up and send her an email or letter.
@@jso6790 Thank you so much for the advice and information. Have family in Santa Cruz and will definitely look her up and send her an email. Have a blessed day.
I’m sure that she would love to hear from you. You have an interesting story. I was stationed in Germany in the military myself in the late 70s and I really became familiar with Angela Davis as I was a serious reader when it came to information about our people. I was born into a family that had membership in the Nation of Islam since about two years before I was born and my Mother made a practice of giving me books to read and I continued read whenever I could even in the military. When I read a book about George Jackson and the Soledad Brothers it highlighted Professor Angela Davis and how she came to be listed on the FBI’s Most Wanted list. I also saw a movie at the movie theater on the military base called “Brothers” I think. It was about George Jackson and the Soledad Brothers and Angela Davis. I hope that you eventually get in touch with her. I’m sure that she will love to hear from you. Peace!!
They wrongfully put Huey Newton in jail too
Geronimo Pratt as well.
And the Soledad brothers, and the whole country of Black people, even present day. People just don't know what continues now -- That's the privilege you have.
Angela Davis and the Black Panthers influenced my way of looking at the world when I was in school during the late '60s and early '70s. Could you imagine if they had access to the social media platform of today? 🤔
Everything they did would've just stirred and died. Social media only allows things to influence for a short moment before the next flavor comes. What they did happened because thoughts and trauma were allowed to linger long enough before the counter culture could shoot it down.
If a message is strong enough, it will be heard regardless of the technology then obtaining. The internet is overrated.
@volvo24091 social media makes a huge difference..you serious? Messages spread rapidly and none stop
@@jgrizzy Am I serious about what?
@Darknamja not for you
I loved watching this. Thank you! Ms. Davis has always been an inspiration to my international civil rights work.
Angela Davis was once a guest at a party, my grandma hosted in the late 1970’s. My mom told me about how she got a chance to meet her, before her stepfather kicked all the kids out of the party.
I do not know the complete history of my Big Sister but I know I love her and she is a brave woman, I admire her highly.
Greg Letbetter Sr.
Much respect to Mrs Davis as being a woman and sacrificing her civil rights for black people That's what drawn me to her #real people #realissues
She didn't sacrifice her civil rights -- her civil rights and human rights were taken from her.
This is great! What a phenomenal woman and she deserves to receive her flowers while she’s here, hopefully Tamron Hall or Sherri Shepherd will have her on their show in the near future.
Yea right!🙄
@@dianegreen1937 Exactly. Sherri and Tamron are sheep.
Sherri and Tamron are media/entertainment puppets.
My youngest daughter was named after Ms Davis💖🙏🏿
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"why are you wearing your hair natural?" an ironic, oxymoronic question
Yes it was the answer because we can werecthe only race without animal hair
@@Tbstash o I
An icon
Exactly.....
It's how it grows. No one else is asked to explain their natural attributes.
It's due to a malignant narcissism that existed (and still does to an wide extent) that has been stoked in White societies over the past number of centuries where they are encouraged to think they are the default and anything different needs to be held to their standards. They then demonstrate truly sociopathic behaviors in order to force other groups to conform to their standards. It's a pretty toxic trait in European societies and their descendants that they really need to address if we are going to have a world where people can prosper regardless of what they look like.
Some of my family members had connections with the Panthers as indigenous people there were strong bonds between the Panthers and AIM members. As people of color there has always been a fight to be treated as humans not savages and slaves.
I have read her books. Great human being no matter your political leanings. She shows us the dangers of the state.
Unfortunately, the state will be a necessary evil until we dismantle capitalism. Every act of evil committed by the US government has been in the service of corporations and the wealthy, and that is a tradition that can be traced back to the European corporations that were responsible for subjugating people around the world for the purposes of extracting labor and resources during the first waves of colonialism. We just need to take control of the state away from the wealthy and put it under the control of the working class.
Is she a marxist? Just curious? Funny how Kanye or Ye wants black strength and they all trashed him! Says jewish media mafia... and they destroyed him. MUG SHOT? SHE WAS WANTED
I haven’t read any of her books but just took a screenshot of them and plan to now.
Those wanted posters are beautiful. I'm definitely getting a shirt made of this
her fro is perfect
She's just stunning just beautiful inside and out
I'm 56 and I remember seeing the wanted poster. One of my female cousins started wearing a big afro ( we called it a natural back in the day) around that time. My mother said doing that could get her in trouble because people both black and white didn't like that. I thought it was beautiful 😍. And my father wore a big afro from the late 60's til 1985 when the style had changed. I only have a positive view of Angela Davis because that is how she was presented to me by those around me.
Those were the times I was born in 59 SO THAT WAS MY TIME....
I remember wanting an afro so bad. My godmother finally let me wear one and my teacher put my hair in a ponytail. She said my hair was distracting.
I was 13 in the fall of 1968, the youngest of 4 boys, and we were prohibited by our dad to wear a 'Fro at the time....he considered it too radical. Maybe he didn't want us visibly associated with that image to protect us from "the establishment", or maybe it was because we were a regular, every Sunday church-going family with two working parents...a rarity in our neighborhood. That restriction was lifted a couple of years later because, well....because of what I like to think of as the social dynamic of Black Power. As the 60s became the 70s, you just couldn't stop it...
Afro centrist ideas are contrary to teachings of Encyclopedia Britannica and Oxford University Press.
I'm natraul and get hated on and I don't care 😂
Notice she said "We did not win the revolution......." We are still fighting the war today but we have little soliders and a lot of casualties.
Peace and blessings to the incredible and inspirational LEGEND Angela Davis! The courage that Ms. Davis and others showed during that era is truly remarkable and serves as an inspiration to those that study history!
WE are the true Hebrews. Do your research and go back to God's Covenant! We are God's chosen people!
St. Angela
@@RocCityHebrew585 AP🙏🏿!
The Afro was political statement. They hair represented militant and defiance. They didn’t hire you for a job if you had an Afro. Great interview. Like Angela said. Power to the People.
Her and her image will go in the hall of fame next to all of the other great revolutionaries of the time. Just as iconic as Che speech photo or Malcolm X looking out the window. Definition of a picture being worth a thousand words
WE are the true Hebrews. Do your research and go back to God's Covenant! We are God's chosen people!
X was a black supremacist who believed in segregation🧢🤡. He was the same thing he said he fought against🦥
I grew my 'Fro out in 1968 as a teenager in Oklahoma. And, yes, people did ask me, "Are you one of those revolutionaries?"
It's amazing. Angela looks just like her mom. Ms Sallye Davis. She taught at a former school that I attended. Yep, I am that old. This history is what I call, my childhood.
Randy, I'm 75, and you having Mrs. Sallye as a former Teacher, is an honor to you. And to be able to look at her daughter, an see her Mothers face again. Beautiful Memories.
One of the OGs . Salute much respect, and thank you for standing up 💪🏽✊🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽you are always in my prayers🤲🏾🤲🏾🤲🏾
Yes,MUCH LOVE AND RESPECT, ANGELA DAVIS.
WE are the true Hebrews. Do your research and go back to God's Covenant! We are God's chosen people!
@@RocCityHebrew585 boss you are stone
Power to the people.
Quite a memory. Thank you. After college, I was fortunate to be hired By Dr Joseph Okpaku, The Third Press, NY. And worked with Joe on the publication of Angela Davis’ first book, If They Come In The Morning: Voices Of Resistance published in 1971
"Don't hate me, cause you hate me"
-love me black
I am so glad this is being explained. I was a lousy student and I now have interest in the past. Thank you for this.
Ma Beth, its never late to learn history
Women, Race, & Class
A People's History of the United States
Manufacturing Consent
Our Enemies in Blue
Inventing Reality
Shock Doctrine
Are Prisons Obsolete?
Capital
The Origin of Family, Private Property, and the State
I highly recommend each of those books for anyone who wants a more honest picture of the history of America and liberal democracy more broadly
fr
@@alamaaya2335 could you please define or interpret “fr” for me ….. thanks
@@tccragun for real
Thank you PBS, for not only giving an in depth explanation of what occurred but why. In times like these, we need to understand the use of propaganda especially in regards to the African American experience now more than ever.
Exactly, those tactics are not just history or confined to the States..
I wonder if they could illuminate the hypocrisy: They came to America and Africa to savage us -- We never went to them.
You realize PBS is propaganda itself?
@@aclark903 Marxist Communist propaganda machine. Oh and by the way no mention of the people that were killed in the court that day.
I grew up in East Palo Alto & quite honestly Angela Davis was a hero
She was lovely, lovely, lovely.
Thank you Angela!!!✊✊✊
Chilean here. I was 10 years old in 1973. I remember seeing posters of Freedom to Angela Davis in Spanish, with an interpretation of her image, her hands in front, chained. I didn't know who was her or why she mattered to many people in my country.
If you don't know, in 1973 a legitimately elected socialist president was ousted by a military coup supported by the USA government, and our little, chaotic but hopeful social revolution became 16 years of dictatorship and changed the country into a capitalist heaven...
Our fellow Black people, keep on fighting for freedom and justice just like Black panther icon Angela Davis did in late 60's. Power to the people!
As an African descendant from Latin America our natural hair here isn't political, it's just beautiful
Well said. We.are beautiful.
Same here in America now. However seems some prefer wigs, weaves over their natural beauty.
@@tenacious1 Which is so terribly sad. As long as I don’t develop a Bozo The Clown hairline I’ll continue to wear my afro.
@@tenacious1 wigs are not a bad thing if they look like our natural hair. African women have been enhancing their own hair since Egypt. Lupita Nyong'o wears natural pieces, nothing wrong with that. I have 4 babies and sometimes I don't have time to do my hair and I plop on an Afro wig or piece that's looks just like my own hair done. What I have a problem with are the long blonde wigs and weaves. Why mimic something that is less attractive than what you already are?
@@tenacious1 you can't tell who hate they self based on their hairstyle I'll tell you that right now
She's so succint and well-spoken!
Angela Davis is so inspiring. Horrible she was depicted as a criminal and shunned by the government, but saved by the people. 💚💙💜
Black is Beautiful
I LOVE PBS!!!
LEFTIST PROPAGANDA FUNDED BY BIG MONEY AGENDA AND THE TAX PAYERS ... THINK ... SHE WAS A RADICAL AND A MARXIST. HOW DOES THAT BENEFIT STRENGTH OF USA? OR VICTIMHOOD MENTALITY AND CELEBRATION OF CRIME! STUDY CANDACE OWENS AND THOMAS SOWELL
I learned about Angela Davis from my 6th-grade teacher Angela Romero, she was black and Venezuelan. I did not grow up in America, but I learned about her when I was only 10 y/o. I migrated to the US when I was only 17, I arrived in NYC and it didn't take too long to understand that the US was the country I should have been born in, because, it's the country where rights and wrongs challenge each other daily. What a great history lesson by Professor Brown.
She was acquitted one month after J Edgar Hoover died of cardiac arrest.
You mean that his heart attacked him ? .
@@pure1239 yep Shortly before his death he was arrested and about to be bought up on charges and exposed for his crimes and his alpha bet activities he didn't want nobody to know about.
She spoke at my graduation commencement at Vassar. ❤️
The way the FBI treated her is absolutely disgusting. I wonder if America will ever stop being despicable and atone for the evil we have committed? I hope so.
One can only hope. And remember Edward Snowden.
She wasn’t the only one who the FBI targeted and terrorized either.
@@kungfu_kenny4135 I know. The US government is evil to its very core; I just hope I live to see our ruling class brought to justice. I have spent the last decade studying and planning out how to make a case for communism to white southerners, and I think I'm at a place now where I have all the pieces I need and am trying to put them together in a coherent, engaging way.
@@justinwatson1510 there is no case for communism
Short answer, nope.
Wonderful video. Thank you PBS. ❤️
Two words REAL TALK 🤷♀️
I love her!❤
It delights my mind to see and hear of black activists standing up against oppression.
What a beautiful sight here, black people need to start showing who is in charge again ✊🏾👊🏾
Thank You this was so important to see.
Today 10/31/22 The two men who, one dead, who spent years in prison for the killing of Malcolm X and were later exonerated, were recently awarded $34 million dollars from NY City. The man who died his family will receive his part of the award.
Thanks pbs ❤ never knew who she was . So happy to learn about her
We had so few images of ourselves, that we we saw something positive in the larger media, we latched on to it. Even though I was very young, nine years old, I did not need a classroom teacher to tell me that blacks were treated differently than whites. And we did not believe everything the media said.
When Shaft first came out, I remember it was like overnight my older brother and his friends started strutting down the streets wearing their maxi length leather coats (my brother’s was burgundy) with wide brimmed hats.
I was a teenager at the time of Angela and i wanted an afro just like hers! I did wear my hair like her, my dad was concerned but he allowed it. It was my form of solidarity with the Civil rights movement.
I agree🎉and great inner pride of our unique beauty and hair!
Ashe’🎉
Puppet conformity.
@Last Lime Whatevers!
I remember these posters. The pics empowered me. To this day I have never worn a wig nor a weave. No chemicals for over 20 years. Thank you Dr. Davis for having such an impact on my life.
has anyone interviewed to teachers that put those kids to write that? i would love to see what they say
Love this series!!
The Bible says you got to be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove
I truly appreciate this very enlightening visual literacy perspective to teach history. 👏🏿
So these mugshots were made to activist’s look like criminal’s. Thanks for the Info and spreading, truth and light ✊🏾
That wanted poster tee shirt cost at least $100. She is an icon and a hero.
Rite on
i love her so much.
I'll always love an respect that WOMAN
Angela looked very beautiful.
Their day is closer than a lot of them think.
Was Puerto Rican living as a child in projects in the Bronx Angela Davis even as children she represented the Racism that we felt so strongly during this time
We all had her poster and not thought by us as a criminal but symbolic as someone fighting for the rights of blacks. She represented strong women who we all thought was inspirationsl
Respect to her Queenship Motherhood
I was thinking Clarence Williams III as Lync on the TV show drama , Mod Squad , got me growing a afro.
I was born in 72' and remember young that my uncle's and aunts were late teens at the time. The images of what was left of the movement was still visible to those too young to participate. I always say those were the original WOKE days. I remember the disciplined 70's, that's what call it. And like someone said in the video, I myself was a teenager during the "fight the power" reboot. I'm so blessed to have felt the struggle of the movement indirectly.
They fought for a cause. And a just one. Unlike todays woke.
I thank you Ms Davis.
Her photograph look so groovy & big ups to lady Angela Davis ✊💙
During the time of her arrest, our 4th grade class "tried" Ms Davis. I was her "lawyer." She was acquitted.
Love you Angie and thank you for your help 😢
Congratulations on being a descendant of William Brewster of the Mayflower. She can apply to be a member of the General Society of the Mayflower Descendants. Not many people can claim that. (Finding You Roots show on PBS, 9th season)
We need the Black Panthers NOW
1:40 with all the upheaval in the UC system in the 60s, it's shocking that she was considered too radical to teach there
I heard about her as a child loved her then she to me was a hero❤❤❤
And she still looks amazing stunning today 🥳🥳🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️.
Peace... Great Interview ✊🏿🙏🏿
I remember her on the news as I was growing up in the early sixties she was my hero still is, She's the kind of Woman for this Man to Love , Honor and to Cherish forever .😘
Love all Black Panthers, and always will.
I LOVE Dr. Davis !
Angela Davis is a brave and very interesting women not only did she face and conquer adversity becouse of her black heritage she also made a way for other black women to voice their opinions and fight for their rights she is an amazing women 👑✨
Awesome thanks 🙏🏾💜
Very inspirational 🙏👍
I love you mrs.davis
Yes i saw that wanted poster on the original FBI TV show with Efraim Zimbalist
Jury acquited her. 👏👏👏👏
Watching on 3/1/23 and I remember this like it was yesterday. I grew up in Hartford, CT, and was 14 in 1970 (freshman) in a 90% high school trade school. Having the same last name I was harassed and teased on the regular. I learned about racism before I was able to drink or drive. Right On Sista!
6:33 to the children who were guided by their teacher to write such letters to Dr. Davis comes the appropriate response from another teacher by the name of Jane Elliot who sought a way to explain to her class why Dr. King was murdered and in essence what Dr. Davis was fighting against: She created the Brown Eyed/Blue Eyed demonstrative teaching method which gave the class a first hand lesson in how prejudice can be so easily created and a follow up conversation ensued and also again as adults. It is the same with a teacher as it is with a book or any factual information: It is either used to build up or tear down. Your spirit determines your intentions.
Power 2 the people, fight the power ,my people
That fro. That fro. Her and Dr. J. Totally different reasons. The same effect. Black pride
"Most of my heroes don't appear on no stamps!"
Public Enemy's Fight The Power
What have we done, besides ask for equity, that we're constantly feared and disrespected?
Angela Davis was the Queen that kept many of us Queens in the uk strong in the race of oppression,and discrimination, this activist Angela Davis gave birth to a nation of women that were radical, to stand for equality,and fight against a racist system like it was in the uk not just in the us,
she was always more than her fro,
Great to see her a real legendary freedom fighter .👑👊🏽❤️