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                                Slogans Cleaned From Building, Newspaper Article.
                                                            
 
            
    
        
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        Date                
 
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                                1977-03-15
                                                            
 
            
    
    
        
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        Description                
 
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                                A newspaper article from The Home News about workmen cleaning painted slogans in support of Assata Shakur (JoAnne Chesimard), on trial for the 1973 killing of a state trooper, from the Middlesex County Courthouse. Slogans such as “Free Assata” and “Stop the Lynching” had been spraypainted on the building between 1-2am.
                                                            
 
            
    
    
        
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        Additional Subject                
 
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                                Black Panther Party (BPP)
                                                            
 
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                                Prison
                                                            
 
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                                Black nationalism
                                                            
 
            
    
        
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                                Textual document
                                                            
 
            
    
        
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                                Paper
                                                            
 
            
    
        
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                                PDF
                                                            
 
            
    
        
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        HBCU Identifier                
 
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                                mwchcac.ar.2022.faj.IX.4.49.57
                                                            
 
            
    
        
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        HCAC Identifier                
 
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                                HCAC.JSU.0849
                                                            
 
            
    
        
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        Rights                
 
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                                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.
                                                            
 
            
    
        
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        Contributing Institution                
 
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                                Jackson State University
                                                            
 
            
    
        
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        Source                
 
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                                Originally published in The Home News, 15 Mar. 1977, p. 12.
                                                            
 
            
    
    
    
        
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        Language                
 
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                                English
                                                            
 
            
    
        
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