In this source analysis paper, I will be discussing the life of Angela Davis as an activist for civil rights and the sentencing of her involvement with a shoot-out. I found this woman on the LIFE Magazine Archives, “Winners and Losers”, Up, down and around the dice roll for ’72 on page 56. I will give a brief background on her life, then follow it with a secondary source, which comes from several primary sources to create an overview of a situation, and it tells us how the shoot-out happened. I will then analyze a primary source, which gives information by the person themselves or from a source in that time, where Davis is in an interview explaining her thoughts through the period of the shootout and the sentencing after it. The LIFE Magazine Archive, it gives us a small insight on Davis’ life as one of the “Ten Most Wanted”, for the shoot-out in 1970, in Marin County, California, courthouse. Davis, a black activist, Communist, and philosophy instructor, was imprisoned for “the part she allegedly played” (pg.56) in the shootout, for fifteen months. Finally, after …show more content…
Apparently, Davis became a strong supporter of three men who were accused of murdering a prison guard after a few African-American inmates were killed by another prison guard. It was believed that this was a simple cover up or “scapegoats” for the political work within the prison. A shoot-out turned out during one the men’s trial and was named an escape attempt, but several people in the courtroom were killed. The guns used were registered to Davis, and she was supposedly “in love with Jackson”. This source shows the crime that Davis was being accused of, but I feel like this source wants to condemn her and look at it all as a wrong-doing rather than the bigger picture. The source does, though, show the reader much more detail than provided before, and it gives a broader insight on her