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| Born | JoAnne Deborah Byron July 16, 1947 New York City, United States |
Assata Shakur is a political activist from the United States. She was targeted by COINTELPRO and escaped to Cuba, where she now lives in exile.[1]
Early Life
Assata Shakur was born JoAnne Deborah Byron on July 16 1947. She has one sister, Beverly, who is five years younger than her. Shortly after she was born her parents divorced and Assata went to live with her mother and aunt and her grandparents in Jamaica, New York. When she was 3 she moved with her grandparents to Wilmington, North Carolina.[2]
Political Activism
Shakur protested against the U.S. invasion of Vietnam while in college. After graduating, she moved to Oakland, California and joined the Black Panther Party. She later returned to New York City to lead the Black Panther branch in Harlem. In 1971, the police pulled her over and shot her in the stomach, beginning a shootout that killed Zayd Shakur, another Black Panther, and one police officer. Shakur and another revolutionary, Sundiata Acoli, were sent to prison, but Shakur escaped to Cuba.[1]
See Also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rachel Domond (2021-08-23). "Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman" Liberation School. Archived from the original on 2022-02-12. Retrieved 2022-08-29.
- ↑ Assata Shakur (1988). Assata.