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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 76. Chapters: Assata Shakur, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Bobby Seale, H. Rap Brown, James Cromwell, Charles Barron, Fred Hampton, Chaka Khan, Stokely Carmichael, Huey P. Newton, B. Kwaku Duren, Jane Alpert, Bobby Rush, George Jackson, Elaine Brown, Aaron Dixon, Rice/Poindexter Case, Eldridge Cleaver, Alex Rackley, Marshall "Eddie" Conway, Malik Rahim, Robert Trivers, Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, Bunchy Carter, Dhoruba al-Mujahid bin Wahad, Robert Hillary King, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Michael Zinzun, Mark Clark, Anthony Bottom, George W. Sams, Jr., Donald L. Cox, Geronimo Pratt, Warren Kimbro, Emory Douglas, Richard Aoki, List of former members of the Black Panther Party, Michael Tabor, Bashir Hameed, Afeni Shakur, Ashanti Alston, Larry Pinkney, David Hilliard, Lonnie McLucas, Bobby Hutton, Kuwasi Balagoon, William Lee Brent, John Huggins, Pete O'Neal, Sekou Odinga. Excerpt: Assata Olugbala Shakur (born July 16, 1947 as JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard) is an African-American activist and escaped convict who was a member of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and Black Liberation Army (BLA). Between 1971 and 1973, Shakur was accused of several crimes and made the subject of a multi-state manhunt. In May 1973 Shakur was involved in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike, during which New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster and BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur were killed and Shakur and Trooper James Harper were wounded. Between 1973 and 1977, Shakur was indicted in relation to six other alleged criminal incidents-charged with murder, attempted murder, armed robbery, bank robbery, and kidnapping-resulting in three acquittals and three dismissals. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of Foerster and of seven other felonies related to the shootout. Shakur was then incarcerated in several prisons, where her treatment drew...
