Newspaper Photograph of Amiri Baraka speaking at a benefit for Assata Shakur.

Title

Newspaper Photograph of Amiri Baraka speaking at a benefit for Assata Shakur.

Date

1977-03-01

Creator

Unknown See all items with this value

Description

A photograph from the newspaper The Home News of poet and playwright Amiri Baraka speaking at a benefit for Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard) at the Rutgers University Student Center in New Jersey. Shakur was on trial for the 1973 killing of a state trooper. Baraka was one of several speakers speaking on Shakur’s behalf at the benefit.

Primary Subject

1900-1999 See all items with this value

Law See all items with this value

Justice See all items with this value

Black power See all items with this value

Additional Subject

Black Panther Party (BPP)

Prison

Black nationalism

Type

Textual document

Medium

Paper

Format

PDF

HBCU Identifier

mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.IX.4.49.24

HCAC Identifier

HCAC.JSU.0816

Rights

All rights held by the Margaret Walker Center. For permission to publish, distribute, or use this image for any other purpose, please contact Margaret Walker Center, Jackson State University, 601-979-3935 Attn: Center Director.

Contributing Institution

Jackson State University

Source

Originally published in The Home News, 1 Mar. 1977, p. 4.

Collection

The Black Panther Party Archives of Frankye Adams-Johnson See all items with this value

Relation

Bloody Hospital Scene Described, Newspaper Article.

Chesimard Supporter Attacks Critics, Newspaper Article.

Language

English

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