Assata Shakur
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“We can never be free while our men are oppressed.” --Women in Prison: How It Is With Us Assata Shakur / Joanne Chesimard, published in The Black Scholar, April 1978 |
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Assata Olugbala Shakur (born JoAnne Deborah Byron; July 16, 1947, sometimes referred to by her married surname Chesimard) is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted (under New Jersey's "aiding and abetting" statute) of the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. Shakur was also the target of the FBI's COINTELPRO program, a counterintelligence program directed towards Black Liberation groups and activists.
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