Bibliograph

Assata, an autobiography, Assata Shakur ; [forewords by Angela Davis and Lennox S. Hinds]

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Label

Assata, an autobiography, Assata Shakur ; [forewords by Angela Davis and Lennox S. Hinds]

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Assata

Oclc number

50410507

Responsibility statement

Assata Shakur ; [forewords by Angela Davis and Lennox S. Hinds]

Sub title

an autobiography

Summary

"On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, aka JoAnne Chesimard, lay in a 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 J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infilitrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder. ... Two years after her conviction, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. She was given political asylum by Cuba, where she now resides."

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