Editing Angela Davis (section)

===East Germany===
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-L0911-029, Berlin, Erich Honecker empfängt Angela Davis.jpg|thumb|Davis and [[Erich Honecker]] in the [[GDR]], 1972]]
The East German government organized an extensive campaign on behalf of Davis.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Slobodian|first1=Quinn|title=Comrades of Color: East Germany in the Cold War World|publisher=Berghahn Books|isbn=9781782387060|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g6UHCAAAQBAJ|language=en|page=157|date=December 30, 2015|access-date=March 12, 2017|archive-date=April 12, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412144914/https://books.google.com/books?id=g6UHCAAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 1972, Davis visited East Germany, where she met the state's leader [[Erich Honecker]], received an honorary degree from the [[University of Leipzig]] and the [[Star of People's Friendship]] from [[Walter Ulbricht]]. On September 11 in East Berlin she delivered a speech, "Not Only My Victory", praising the GDR and USSR and denouncing American racism.<ref name="UNC Press Books">{{cite book |last1=Farber |first1=Paul M. |title=A Wall of Our Own: An American History of the Berlin Wall |date=2020 |publisher=UNC Press Books |isbn=978-1-4696-5509-3 |page=97 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RvXGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 |language=en |access-date=July 15, 2020 |archive-date=April 12, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412144928/https://books.google.com/books?id=RvXGDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="auto3"/><ref name="transcript Verlag">{{cite book|last1=Kosc|first1=Grzegorz|last2=Juncker|first2=Clara|last3=Monteith|first3=Sharon|last4=Waldschmidt-Nelson|first4=Britta|title=The Transatlantic Sixties: Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade|publisher=transcript Verlag|isbn=9783839422168|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5rvJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA85|language=en|date=October 2013|access-date=March 12, 2017|archive-date=April 12, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412144907/https://books.google.com/books?id=5rvJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA85#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Campus Verlag">{{cite book|last1=Hansen|first1=Jan|last2=Helm|first2=Christian|last3=Reichherzer|first3=Frank|title=Making Sense of the Americas: How Protest Related to America in the 1980s and Beyond|publisher=Campus Verlag|isbn=9783593504803|pages=317–332|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sIboCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA317|language=en|date=December 12, 2015|access-date=March 12, 2017|archive-date=April 12, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412144953/https://books.google.com/books?id=sIboCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA317#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref>

She visited the [[Berlin Wall]], where she laid flowers at the memorial for [[Reinhold Huhn]], an East German guard who had been killed by a man who was trying to escape with his family across the border in 1962. Davis said, "We mourn the deaths of the border guards who sacrificed their lives for the protection of their socialist homeland" and "When we return to the USA, we shall undertake to tell our people the truth about the true function of this border."<ref name="UNC Press Books"/><ref name="auto3"/><ref name="transcript Verlag"/><ref name="Campus Verlag"/> In 1973, she returned to East Berlin, leading the U.S. delegation to the 10th World Festival of Youth and Students.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Rodden|first1=John|title=Repainting the Little Red Schoolhouse: A History of Eastern German Education, 1945–1995|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780195344387|page=143|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LSzZlw2jBTIC&pg=PA143|language=en|date=January 3, 2002|access-date=March 12, 2017|archive-date=April 12, 2024|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240412145425/https://books.google.com/books?id=LSzZlw2jBTIC&pg=PA143#v=onepage&q&f=false|url-status=live}}</ref> 

On her 1972 tour, Davis also visited [[People's Republic of Bulgaria|Bulgaria]], [[Czechoslovak Socialist Republic|Czechoslovakia]], and [[Chile]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=de Guzman |first1=René |title="A Question of Memory: A Conversation with Angela Y. Davis" |url=https://www.goethe.de/ins/us/en/kul/art/one/22172673.html |website=Goethe Institute |access-date=5 May 2025}}</ref>