Assata Shakur
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Biography of Assata Shakur
We Have a Duty to Fight for Our Freedom.“ —Assata Shakur
Assata Olugbala Shakur (aka JoAnne Chesimard) was born on July 16, 1947, in Jamaica Queens, NY.
Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover’s campaign to defame, infiltrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder.
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