Mrs. Chesimard Drops Plan to Testify in Cell-Shift Bid, Newspaper Article.
- Title
- Mrs. Chesimard Drops Plan to Testify in Cell-Shift Bid, Newspaper Article.
- Date
- 1976-04-23
- Creator
- Reginald Kavanaugh
- Description
- A newspaper article from The Home News about Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard) dropping her plan to testify in her attempt to get moved to a larger cell while in Middlesex County to stand trial for the May 1973 killing of a state trooper. Shakur was convicted in 1977 of the killing and escaped prison in 1979.
- 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.4.49.7
- HCAC Identifier
- HCAC.JSU.0799
- 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 Home News, 23 Apr. 1976, p. 5.
- Collection
- The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson
- Item sets
- JSU Frankye Adams Johnson Articles
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