TIFF Trailer: 'Free Angela & All Political Prisoners': Built around new interviews with Davis, the film recounts her Alabama upbringing, her studies in the U.S. and Europe, and the start of her academic career in the philosophy department at UCLA, where she quickly drew fire for her membership in the CP — which then-governor Ronald Reagan publicly labelled a "provocation." (Reagan would later amend this, claiming that what really irked him was Davis’ "unprofessionalism.") A campaign began to have Davis banned from teaching anywhere in the state. She began receiving death threats, which led her to purchase her first firearm.
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