Assata
Subtitle: an autobiography
By: Assata Shakur ; [forewords by Angela Davis and Lennox S. Hinds].
Publisher: L. Hill Books
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Shakur, Assata.; Black Panther Party -- Biography.; African Americans -- Biography.; Black nationalism -- United States.; Racism -- United States.; United States -- Race relations.
Genres: Biography.
Description: "On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, aka JoAnne Chesimard, lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that claimed the life of a white state trooper. Long a target of J. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infilitrate, 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. ... Two years after her conviction, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. She was given political asylum by Cuba, where she now resides." From the bookjacket.
Notes: Originally published: c1987. With new introd.