An International Women’s Day broadcast that brings together two crucial women from CHEAPs cosmos – with some accompaniment by Billy Bragg and the band Ruth Fischer. Shortly before her death in 1961, Ruth Fischer was shopping for shoes in the not-yet-chic Marais district of Paris, when she suddenly spied a young black American woman whose shoes got her attention. She was somewhat shy about approaching the woman, but eventually she got up the nerve to invite her for a coffee. They went to a quiet little café and started chatting, but the young Angela Davis was a little put off by the older communist's decidedly anti-Soviet streak.
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