Newspaper Photograph of Amiri Baraka speaking at a benefit for Assata Shakur.

Media: JacksonState/HCAC.JSU.0816.pdf

Title: Newspaper Photograph of Amiri Baraka speaking at a benefit for Assata Shakur.
Date: 1977-03-01
Creator: Unknown See all items with this value
Description: A photograph from the newspaper The Home News of poet and playwright Amiri Baraka speaking at a benefit for Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard) at the Rutgers University Student Center in New Jersey. Shakur was on trial for the 1973 killing of a state trooper. Baraka was one of several speakers speaking on Shakur’s behalf at the benefit.
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.4.49.24
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.JSU.0816
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, 1 Mar. 1977, p. 4.
Collection: The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson See all items with this value
Relation: Bloody Hospital Scene Described, Newspaper Article.; Chesimard Supporter Attacks Critics, Newspaper Article.
Language: English

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