Sixty years ago, the civil rights movement was called something else, said 1970s political icon Angela Davis at the University of Northern Colorado on Wednesday night.
“It was called the ‘Freedom Movement,’ ” Davis told a crowd of about 700 in the University Center. “It stood for something vaster than legal rights.”
Davis was the third speaker in the university’s Provost Speaker Series, which invites speakers of a different expertise each semester. Davis’ experience comes from her time as a Black Panther activist, author and retired professor from the University of California-Santa Cruz.
The Freedom Movement, Davis said, was a more appropriate term because it included equal opportunity. An unequal policy structure “determines who gets to go to a university, and who gets to go to a penitentiary,” Davis said.
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