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Assata An Autobiography
Shakur, Assata Publisher: Lawrence Hill Year Published: 1989 Pages: 320pp ISBN: 0-88208-222-1 Resource Type: Book
On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, aka Joanne Chesimard, lay in the hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed while local, state and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of an FBI campaign to harass Black nationalist organizations she was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977.
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