JUNE 4

1972— College professor and activist Angela Davis is acquitted of charges that she assisted and conspired with the young men involved in a deadly 1970 shootout at the Marin County courthouse in California. The assault on the court­house was an attempt to free imprisoned Black activist George Jackson. At least three people were killed during the es­cape attempt. Davis, a Birmingham, Ala., native who became a member of the Communist Party, spent 16 months in prison but on this day in 1972 she was found not guilty of all charges by an all- White San Jose, Calif., jury.

1973—Arna Bontemps dies at the age of 72 in Nashville, Tenn. Born in Louisi­ana, Bontemps became one of the key figures in the Black artistic and cultural movement known as the Harlem Renais­sance of the 1920s and

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