Texas Southern University - Tiger Pride Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Calling President Ronald Reagan immoral and saying she holds him personally responsible for the actions in California dur- ing the Civil Rights movement. Angela Davis spoke to a packed Texas Southern University (TSU; auditorium crowd. Davis, who still sports her reddish afro, spoke for little more than an hour and mapped out several points of interest to every- one in attendance. She spoke on black history as being a strug- gle for determination, and a struggle for freedom, and that Ron- ald Reagan has made it perfectly clear that he will set the clock back on the achievements blacks have fought and died for. She continued saying that teenage unemployment, the assault on black institutions, and the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan has got to be stopped . Quoting mainly from Frederick Douglas, the 36-year-old col- lege instructor commented. Unity is the only way to defeat these problems . She concluded her speech by asking the joyous crowd of 1806 to get back to the business of preventing World War III. adding the least people can do is to write their senators and ask them to ratify SALT II ANGELA DAVIS

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