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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur
ISBN: 1556520743
Format: Paperback, 320pp
Pub. Date: November 1990
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
This black activist's memoir is like a freeze frame of the late 1960s and
early 1970s. This book is an otherwise compelling tale of the impact of white
racism on a sensitive and powerful young black woman. Born Joanne Chesimard,
she took an African name to confirm her commitment to black liberation, joined
militant organizations, and was ultimately convicted of the murder of a New
Jersey highway patrol officer in 1977. Her descriptions of life in prison and
the vagaries of the court system are especially wrenching. Living now in Cuba
as an escaped felon, she continues her utopian plea for revolution.
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