She was given political asylum by Cuba, where she now resides.' From the bookjacket. Two years after her conviction, Assata Shakur escaped from prison. Edgar Hoover's campaign to defame, infilitrate, and criminalize Black nationalist organizations and their leaders, Shakur was incarcerated for four years prior to her conviction on flimsy evidence in 1977 as an accomplice to murder. In May 1973, activist Assata Shakur and two members of the Black Liberation Army were pulled over by state troopers on the New Jersey Turnpike. While the book was first published in 1988. In 1979, she escaped from prison and made her way to Cuba, where she was granted political asylum and continues to live today. Assata: An Autobiography traces events from Assata Shakurs early childhood to her political refugee status in Cuba. On May 2 1973, Black Panther activist Assata Olugbala Shakur (fsn) Joanne Deborah Chesimard, was pulled over by the New Jersey State Police, shot twice and then charged with murder of a police officer. 'On May 2, 1973, Black Panther Assata Shakur, a k a JoAnne Chesimard, lay in a hospital, close to death, handcuffed to her bed, while local, state, and federal police attempted to question her about the shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike that claimed the life of a white state trooper. Assata Shakur, a former member of the Black Liberation Army, was convicted in 1977 for the murder of a state trooper during a shootout in New Jersey. (Angela Yvonne), 1944- author of foreword. URL - (Publisher description) Other contributors Davis, Angela Y. Assata : an autobiography / Assata Shakur. From the front lines of the Black liberation struggle to the underground torture chambers of Rikers Island Correctional facility, Shakurs harrowing.

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