No author, ‘Great start for the Angela Davis campaign’, April 23rd, 1971, Volume 35, Issue 17, p. 3

Report on Westminster Rally for the Soledad Brothers,

‘Judging by its rally at Westminster Central Hall on Tuesday evening the new British campaign on behalf of Angela Davis and the Soledad brothers is going to be really big. Hundreds were locked out, no one left early, it went on, and so did the cheers, for three hours. “Our anti arms deal rally was quite something, but nothing like this” admitted one of the leaders of the Anti-Apartheid Movement. And for impact there certainly was nothing at the AA rally to compare with the way James Baldwin set Tuesday’s 3,000 audience alight: “If Angela Davis and George Jackson and my child have no future, no one in this hall has any future.”. How much further the British campaign does is anyone’s guess. Mine is that Fleet Street will be just as unwilling to boost it as the American Press is to give sympathetic coverage to the case of Miss Davis — “a black communist militant” — and George Jackson, the best known of the three black prisoners accused of murdering a warder at Soledad Prison. But Fleet Street can’t pretend it hasn’t the fact. The day before the rally, there was a press conference which George Jackson’s sister and his defence attorney described how the authorities were denying access to witnesses in the case, harassing Jackson’s family, and generally how Jackson sentenced to an indefinite period of “One year to life” for robbing a garage of £30, has been treated in prison in the 11 years he has been there’.