Gavin Newsom’s wife celebrates Angela Davis, former fugitive Communist Party member, for Women’s History Month

Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the spouse of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, shared a video celebrating Ladies’s Historical past Month early this month, a video celebrating a former Communist Social gathering member and fugitive from the FBI, amongst others.

“5 Golden State trailblazers to have a good time this Ladies’s Historical past Month,” her TikTok video started.

Second on the checklist: Angela Davis, 78, an activist who gained notoriety within the Nineteen Sixties and ’70s whereas working with the Communist Social gathering USA and the Black Panther Social gathering. Investigators linked her to the acquisition of weapons later utilized by three inmates who took a decide and juror hostage throughout their trial in 1970 for killing a jail guard.

ANGELA DAVIS, FORMER FUGITIVE WANTED BY FBI, TO OFFER MLK DAY LECTURE

Regulation enforcement officers responded with a barrage of bullets, and the inmates and decide died. Davis was accused of offering weapons used within the incident and was placed on the FBI checklist till she was captured in 1972. Davis spent 16 months in jail earlier than she was acquitted of all costs at trial.

Gavin Newsom, then the governor-elect, with spouse Jennifer Siebel Newsom in 2018.
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Additionally name-checked in Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s video: 43-year-old transgender activist Isa Noyola; 91-year-old labor chief Dolores Huerta; lesbian activist couple Del Martin (1921-2008) and Phyllis Lyon (1924-2020); and author Joan Didion (1934-2021).

The video added the message “RIP” as Didion’s images appeared.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom and spouse Jennifer Siebel attending the Democrats’ presidential major debate at Loyola Marymount College on Dec. 19, 2019, in Los Angeles.
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The governor’s workplace didn’t instantly reply to Fox Information’ request for touch upon the video.

Then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan tried to fireplace Davis from a instructing put up at College of California, Los Angeles, because of her ties to the Communist Social gathering – however college students and school got here to her protection.