Chesimard Trial Hits Bumps in Fourth Week, Newspaper Article.

Title: Chesimard Trial Hits Bumps in Fourth Week, Newspaper Article.
Date: 1977-03-15--1977-03-19
Creator: Pam Roberts See all items with this value
Description: A newspaper article from The New Jersey Afro-American about Superior Court Judge Theodore Appleby barring the testimony of an FBI agent and senator in the trial of Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard) for the 1973 killing of a state trooper. Attorney William Kunstler wanted to use the testimony to establish a police conspiracy against Black militants.
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.4.49.55
HCAC Identifier: HCAC.JSU.0847
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 New Jersey Afro-American, 15-19 Mar. 1977, p. 2.
Collection: The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson See all items with this value
Language: English

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