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: 1900-1999; Law; Justice; Black power
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