Cops Surround Chesimard’s Jersey Return, Newspaper Article.
- Title
- Cops Surround Chesimard’s Jersey Return, Newspaper Article.
- Date
- 1976-01-30
- Creator
- Lawrence Nagy
- Description
- A newspaper article from The Star Ledger about Assata Shakur's (JoAnne Chesimard) return to the Middlesex County Jail from Rikers Island Prison to stand trial for the May 1973 killing of a state trooper. Shakur was convicted in 1977 of killing the state trooper during a shootout, escaped prison in 1979, and is still wanted by the FBI.
- Primary Subject
- 1900-1999 See all items with this value
- Law See all items with this value
- Justice See all items with this value
- Black power See all items with this value
- Additional Subject
- Black Panther Party (BPP)
- Prison
- Black nationalism
- Type
- Textual document
- Medium
- Paper
- Format
- JPEG
- HBCU Identifier
- mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.IX.4.49.1
- HCAC Identifier
- HCAC.JSU.0793
- Rights
- All rights held by the Margaret Walker Center. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, 601-979-3935 Attn: Center Director.
- Contributing Institution
- Jackson State University
- Source
- Originally published in The Star Ledger, 30 Jan. 1976, p. 13.
- Collection
- The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson
- Item sets
- JSU Frankye Adams Johnson Articles
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