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Assata Shakur birth
Joanne Deborah Bryon ( Assata Shakur) was born in Queens, New York. -
Education
She dropped out of high school at the age of seveteen but return to college in her early twenties. Assata attended Manhattan Community College and City College of New York. She became a student activit and to show her political knoledge and commitment to her African heritage, she change her name to Assata ("she who stuggles") Shakur ("the thankful"). -
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FBI's most wanted
Assaka Shakur was place on the FBI's most wnated list and incicted for the bank robberies.
April 5 1971; August 23, 1971; September 1, 1972 -
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Crime
Kidnapping and muder of two drug dealers -
Crime
Attempted Muder of policeman -
New Jersey
Assata Shakur and two members of the Black Liberation Army were stopped by New Jersey State troppers on the New Jersey Turnpike -
Pregancy
While Assata Shakur was in prison, she became pregant by Kamau, her codefendant during her New York bank roberry trial and gave birth to a girl -
Conviction
She was convicted of mudering state tropper Werner Forrester and in two years she escape and went to Cuba where she was given political asylum
