“I was shocked,” activist Angela Davis said Friday in Detroit. “But I shouldn’t have been.”
But dozens of pages zero in on Franklin's activity in the late '60s and early '70s, when the Detroit soul star was highly visible on the civil rights front and became celebrated by leading figures in the Black Power movement.
Davis said she and the Queen of Soul were not closely acquainted: “I just appreciated her music and all of the work she did.” Davis was a UCLA philosophy professor and Communist Party USA leader when she emerged as one of the most prominent Black activists at the turn of the 1970s. Davis’ cause was taken up by Black and white celebrities around the world – with Franklin among the most notable.
Franklin, then 28, noted that her decision did not sit well with her Detroit-preacher father, a civil rights pioneer uneasy with the movement's radicalization.
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