TY - BOOK AU - Professor, TI - Angela: portrait of a revolutionary PY - 1972/// CY - London PB - Shere Books Limited KW - Davis, Angela Y. KW - Women revolutionaries KW - United States KW - Biography. KW - Human rights KW - Political aspects KW - African Americans KW - Race relations KW - African American women KW - Biography N2 - In 1970 black militants attempted to kidnap a judge and four other hostages to force the American authorities into releasing the famous Soledad Brothers. The attempt ended in a bloody shooting and the kidnappers were arrested. Angela Davis was charged with obtaining the guns used and consequently imprisoned as an accomplice. Angela's arrest and trial raised a storm of protest that threatened to explode into fierce rebellion ER -