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AngelaDavis buttonANGELA DAVIS ON FBI MOST WANTED LIST

The Rolling Stones song Sweet Black Angel from 1972 album Exile On Main Street is about American activist and university professor Angela Davis, who was openly communist and aligned with the notorious Black Panthers of the 1970s.

California governor Ronald Reagan > a bad Hollywood actor who later became a bad US President > wanted Angela Davis removed as a teacher at the University of California (UCLA).

She went into hiding in 1970 and was put on the FBI’s 10 most wanted list > after being accused of helping an attempted courtroom escape in Marin County that ended with four people dead.

Angela Davis was facing trial charged with murder when Exile on Main Street was released. She was eventually acquitted.

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