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Assata, An Autobiography
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In 1973, Assata Shakur, a leader in the Black Liberation movement of the 1960’s and ‘70’s, was convicted, based on flimsy evidence, of being an accomplice in the murder of a New Jersey State Trooper.Assata an autobiography analysis meaning
(She was also charged multiple times and then acquitted for committing other felonies. She spent six years in prison until making a daring escape with the aid of some of her comrades. After several years in hiding, she was secreted to Cuba where she still lives today.
Her autobiography begins with the horrific experience of her arrest on the New Jersey Turnpike. With the chapters alternating between her growing up year