A Media Blackout for Chesimard Jurors, Newspaper Article.
- Title
- A Media Blackout for Chesimard Jurors, Newspaper Article.
- Date
- 1977-03-11
- Creator
- Lawrence Nagy
- Description
- A newspaper article from The Star Ledger about the 15 sequestered jurors in the Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard) trial for the 1973 killing of a state trooper being given a media blackout after the seizure of three buildings in Washington, D.C. by the Hanafi Muslim sect to avoid possible prejudice against Shakur, a professed Muslim.
- Primary Subject
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- 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
- Islam
- Type
- Textual document
- Medium
- Paper
- Format
- JPEG
- HBCU Identifier
- mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.IX.4.49.49
- HCAC Identifier
- HCAC.JSU.0841
- 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, 11 Mar. 1977, p. 4.
- Collection
- The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson
- Item sets
- JSU Frankye Adams Johnson Articles
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