A radical archive arrives at Harvard

By Colleen Walsh via https://news.harvard.edu

With help from Hutchins Center, Schlesinger Library acquires papers of scholar-activist Angela Davis

or almost 60 years Angela Davis has been for many an iconic face of feminism and counterculture activism in America.

Now her life in letters and images will be housed at Harvard.

Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library has acquired Davis’ archive, a trove of documents, letters, papers, photos, and more that trace her evolution as an activist, author, educator, and scholar. The papers were secured with support from Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African & African American Research.

“My papers reflect 50 years of involvement in activist and scholarly collaborations seeking to expand the reach of justice in the world,” Davis said in a statement. “I am very happy that at the Schlesinger Library they will join those of June Jordan, Patricia Williams, Pat Parker, and so many other women who have been advocates of social transformation.”

Jane Kamensky, Carl and Lily Pforzheimer Foundation Director of the Schlesinger Library, sees the collection yielding “prize-winning books for decades as people reckon …

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