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On this day in 1972, academic and author Angela Y. Davis was acquitted on charges of conspiracy, murder and kidnapping by a jury in San Jose, California. Learn more about the political activist and human rights leader by watching a throwback interview here or reading her autobiography.
“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change.
Angela y. davis
I am changing the things I cannot accept.”