Mrs. Chesimard Drops Plan to Testify in Cell-Shift Bid, Newspaper Article.

Media: JacksonState/HCAC.JSU.0799.pdf

Title: Mrs. Chesimard Drops Plan to Testify in Cell-Shift Bid, Newspaper Article.
Date: 1976-04-23
Creator: Reginald Kavanaugh See all items with this value
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: PDF
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 See all items with this value
Relation: Secret Data Dictated Solitary Cell for Mrs. Chesimard, Newspaper Article.; Interview Mrs. Chesimard in Confinement Suit, Newspaper Article.; U.S. Judge Inspects Chesimard’s Solitary Cell, Newspaper Article.
Language: English

Item sets: Ephemera & Objects; Women in the Movement Collection; Black Liberation Army (BLA) Collection; Jackson State University Collections

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