'Comrade Angela Davis': An icon in East Germany - DW
Oct 12, 2020 · In the early 1970s, pictures of Angela Davis visiting East Germany (GDR) circulated the world. In them, she appears casual, stylish and confident as she towers over Socialist Unity Party (SED)...
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In East Germany, the regime led a nationwide push to mobilize solidarity for Angela Davis. Portraying her as the heroine of the “other America,” it produced a whole host of publications, songs, and radio plays about Davis available to the population and organized support rallies throughout the country.
Angela Davis - Wikipedia
In September 1972, Davis visited East Germany, where she met the state's leader Erich Honecker, received an honorary degree from the University of Leipzig and the Star of People's Friendship from Walter Ulbricht. On September 11 in East Berlin she delivered a speech, "Not Only My Victory", praising the GDR and USSR and denouncing American racism.
Solidarity! Angela Davis and the GDR - Goethe-Institut USA
The campaign for Angela Davis built upon an already established tradition of connections between the GDR and the “other America,” which persisted until the end of the East German state in 1989–90.
The Friendship between East Germany and Angela Davis
Nov 5, 2020 · ‘A Million Roses for Angela’ (1970–72) was a postcard and letter campaign organized by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in support of the revolutionary, civil-rights activist Angela Davis, who, at that time, was falsely imprisoned under terrorism charges in the US.
East Germany’s Love Affair With Angela Davis - The New York …
Oct 26, 2020 · In a remarkable group of paintings made in the early 1970s, East German artists painted or drew an idealized Angela Davis as a captive revolutionary, a pariah on trial, a wistful utopian,...
East Germany's Red Woodstock: The 1973 Festival between the ...
Beginning in the early 1970s, the East German state honored Angela Davis as a key spokesperson of the “other America” and as a powerful symbol of the Black Power movement.
A Million Roses for Angela Davis - SKD
Oct 10, 2020 · Few East Germans over the age of fifty fail to remember the state-organized solidarity campaign calling for the release of the US philosopher, communist and Black Power activist Angela Davis. “A million roses for Angela” was the motto of a postcard campaign in 1970-72 in support of Davis, who at the time was being held under terrorism charges.
Angela Davis: political activist | Europeana
Mar 19, 2021 · Angela Davis is a political activist, philosopher and author who has continuously pushed for changes in the US prison system. Her work has been admired in East Germany and other communist nations, but she was once regarded by the FBI as a terrorist.
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Davis supported all the Communist dictatorships of Eastern Europe, including the Stalinist regime of Erich Honecker in East Germany, which built a wall around East Berlin and shot women and men attempting to escape.