{"id":2251,"date":"1971-02-18T00:51:12","date_gmt":"1971-02-18T00:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/?p=2251"},"modified":"2018-10-28T18:54:17","modified_gmt":"2018-10-28T18:54:17","slug":"black-students-create-committee-in-support-of-angela-davis-acquittal-students-form-peace-coalition-issue-a-peace-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/1971\/02\/18\/black-students-create-committee-in-support-of-angela-davis-acquittal-students-form-peace-coalition-issue-a-peace-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"Black students create committee in support of Angela Davis\u2019 acquittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 18, 1971<\/p>\n<p>Black students create committee in support of Angela Davis\u2019 acquittal; Students form Peace Coalition, issue a Peace Treaty<\/p>\n<p><i>(Date is for when it was reported in the Sophian)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Smith students responded to UCLA professor and activist Angela Davis\u2019 arrest, impending trial, and treatment as a black woman and a so-called \u201cradical.\u201d Brooke Whiting \u201972, JoCarol Evans \u201973, and Anne Payne \u201973 formed a committee to inform the Smith and Northampton community about Davis\u2019 case and organize actions, such as a letter-writing campaign, toward her acquittal. They did so in conversation with similar groups at Mt. Holyoke, Williams, UMass, and Amherst. In a Sophian letter to the editor, Whiting described the racial and political dynamics of Davis\u2019 arrest.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1971.02.18-Angela-Davis-letters-campaign-6.jpg\"><b><i>Angela Davis (letters campaign)<\/i><\/b><\/a><b><i><\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/316\/2018\/10\/1971.02.18-Lttr.-to-the-Ed.-Angela-Davis-Story-3.jpg\"><b><i>(Lttr. to the Ed.) Angela Davis Story<\/i><\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[Last updated on October 28, 2018]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 18, 1971 Black students create committee in support of Angela Davis\u2019 acquittal; Students form [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2028,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[109,53,49],"class_list":["post-2251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1970s","tag-109","tag-black-students","tag-student-voices","entry","grid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2251"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2325,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2251\/revisions\/2325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/weaving-voices-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}