Editing Angela Davis (section)

===Jonestown and Peoples Temple===
In the mid-1970s, [[Jim Jones]], who developed the cult [[Peoples Temple]], initiated friendships with progressive leaders in the San Francisco area including [[Dennis Banks]] of the [[American Indian Movement]] and Davis.<ref name="Scheers">{{cite book|last=Scheers|first=Julia|author-link=Julia Scheeres|date=2011|title=A Thousand Lives: the Untold Story of Jonestown|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h1s_Ee8QDlcC&pg=PA33|location=New York|publisher=Simon and Schuster|page=33|isbn=9781451628968|access-date=September 11, 2015}}{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> On September 10, 1977, 14 months before the Temple's mass murder-suicide, Davis spoke via amateur radio telephone "patch" to members of his Peoples Temple who were living in [[Jonestown]] in [[Guyana]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Reiterman|first1=Tim|last2=Jacobs|first2=John|title=Raven: The Untold Story of Rev. Jim Jones and His People|publisher=Dutton|year=1982|page=[https://archive.org/details/ravenuntoldstory00reit/page/369 369]|isbn=978-0-525-24136-2|title-link=Raven (Reiterman book)}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Angela Davis & the Six Day Siege|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19021|publisher=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple|access-date=March 25, 2015|archive-date=March 31, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331175940/https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19021|url-status=live}}</ref> In her statement during the "[[Jonestown#Stoen custody dispute|Six Day Siege]]", she expressed support for the Peoples Temple's anti-racism efforts and she also told Temple members that there was a conspiracy against them. She said, "When you are attacked, it is because of your progressive stand, and we feel that it is directly an attack against us as well."<ref>{{cite web|title=Statement of Angela Davis (Text)|url=http://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19027|publisher=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple|access-date=September 11, 2015|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401003346/https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19027|url-status=live}}</ref> On February 28, 1978, Davis wrote to President [[Jimmy Carter]], asking him not to assist in efforts to retrieve a child from Jonestown. Her letter called Jones "a humanitarian in the broadest sense of the word".<ref>{{cite web |title=Letters of Support for Peoples Temple |url=https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/jvs-78-7b.pdf |website=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown & Peoples Temple |access-date=10 April 2023 |archive-date=April 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410145514/https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/jvs-78-7b.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Letters of Support for Peoples Temple |url=https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19039 |website=Alternative Considerations of Jonestown and Peoples Temple |access-date=10 April 2023 |archive-date=April 10, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230410145513/https://jonestown.sdsu.edu/?page_id=19039 |url-status=live }}</ref>