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

Title: Newspaper Photograph of Amiri Baraka speaking at a benefit for Assata Shakur.
Date: 1977-03-01
Creator: Unknown
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; Law; Justice; Black power
Additional Subject: Black Panther Party (BPP); Prison; Black nationalism
Type: Textual document
Medium: Paper
Format: JPEG
HBCU Identifier: mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.IX.4.49.24
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

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