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	{{Infobox person\|name=Assata Shakur\|birth_name=JoAnne Deborah Byron\|birth_date=16 July 1947\|birth_place=[[Queens]], [[New York City\|New York City]], [[United States of America\|United States\|U.S.]]\|image=Assata Shakur.png\|death_date=25 September 2025 (aged 78)\|death_place=[[Havana]], [[Republic of Cuba\|Cuba]]}}		{{Infobox person\|name=Assata Shakur\|birth_name=JoAnne Deborah Byron\|birth_date=16 July 1947\|birth_place=[[Queens]], [[New York City\|New York City]], [[United States of America\|United States\|U.S.]]\|image=Assata Shakur.png\|death_date=25 September 2025 (aged 78)\|death_place=[[Havana]], [[Republic of Cuba\|Cuba]]\|known=[[Black Panther Party]] activist}}

	'''Assata Olugbala Shakur''' (~~[[Birth name\|née]]~~ '''~~Joanne~~ Deborah Byron'''; 16 July 1947 ~~in [[Queens]], [[New York City\|NYC]]~~ – 25 September 2025 ~~in [[Havana]]~~), briefly known as '''Joanne Chesimard''', was an [[African American]] political [[Activism\|activist]], [[Revolution\|revolutionary]], and member of the [[Black Panther Party]]. In the early 1970s, she was targetted by [[COINTELPRO]] and charged with a litany of violent crimes. This culminated in 1973 when she was caught in a shootout which resulted in the death of [[New Jersey State Police\|state trooper]] [[Werner Foerster]]. In 1977, she was convicted of Foerster's murder and sentenced to [[Life imprisonment\|life in prison]]. Shakur escaped in 1979, living in exile in [[Republic of Cuba\|Cuba]] until her death in 2025.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=Rachel Domond\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman\|date=2021-08-23\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212083745/https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-date=2022-02-12\|retrieved=2022-08-29}}</ref>		'''Assata Olugbala Shakur''' (born '''JoAnne Deborah Byron'''; 16 July 1947 – 25 September 2025), briefly known as '''Joanne Chesimard''', was an [[African American]] political [[Activism\|activist]], [[Revolution\|revolutionary]], and member of the [[Black Panther Party]]. In the early 1970s, she was targetted by [[COINTELPRO]] and charged with a litany of violent crimes. This culminated in 1973 when she was caught in a shootout which resulted in the death of [[New Jersey State Police\|state trooper]] [[Werner Foerster]]. In 1977, she was convicted of Foerster's murder and sentenced to [[Life imprisonment\|life in prison]]. Shakur escaped in 1979, living in exile in [[Republic of Cuba\|Cuba]] until her death in 2025.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=Rachel Domond\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman\|date=2021-08-23\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212083745/https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-date=2022-02-12\|retrieved=2022-08-29}}</ref>

	== Early Life ==		== Early Life ==
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	== References ==		== References ==
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			[[Category:1947 births]]
			[[Category:2025 deaths]]
	[[Category:Black Panther Party]]		[[Category:Black Panther Party]]
	[[Category:Targets of intelligence operations]]		[[Category:Targets of intelligence operations]]

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	{{Infobox person\|name=Assata Shakur\|birth_name=JoAnne Deborah Byron\|birth_date=July ~~16,~~ 1947\|birth_place=New York City, [[United States of America\|United States]]\|image=Assata Shakur.png}}		{{Infobox person\|name=Assata Shakur\|birth_name=JoAnne Deborah Byron\|birth_date=16 July 1947\|birth_place=[[Queens]], [[New York City\|New York City]], [[United States of America\|United States\|U.S.]]\|image=Assata Shakur.png\|death_date=25 September 2025 (aged 78)\|death_place=[[Havana]], [[Republic of Cuba\|Cuba]]}}

	'''Assata Shakur''' ~~is a~~ political activist ~~from~~ the ~~United States~~. ~~She~~ was ~~targeted~~ by [[COINTELPRO]] and escaped to [[Republic of Cuba\|Cuba]]~~, where she now lives~~ in ~~exile~~.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=Rachel Domond\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman\|date=2021-08-23\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212083745/https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-date=2022-02-12\|retrieved=2022-08-29}}</ref>		'''Assata Olugbala Shakur''' ([[Birth name\|née]] '''Joanne Deborah Byron'''; 16 July 1947 in [[Queens]], [[New York City\|NYC]] – 25 September 2025 in [[Havana]]), briefly known as '''Joanne Chesimard''', was an [[African American]] political [[Activism\|activist]], [[Revolution\|revolutionary]], and member of the [[Black Panther Party]]. In the early 1970s, she was targetted by [[COINTELPRO]] and charged with a litany of violent crimes. This culminated in 1973 when she was caught in a shootout which resulted in the death of [[New Jersey State Police\|state trooper]] [[Werner Foerster]]. In 1977, she was convicted of Foerster's murder and sentenced to [[Life imprisonment\|life in prison]]. Shakur escaped in 1979, living in exile in [[Republic of Cuba\|Cuba]] until her death in 2025.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=Rachel Domond\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman\|date=2021-08-23\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212083745/https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-date=2022-02-12\|retrieved=2022-08-29}}</ref>

	== Early Life ==		== Early Life ==
	Assata Shakur was born JoAnne Deborah Byron on July 16 1947. She ~~has~~ one sister, Beverly, who is five years younger than her. Shortly after she was born her parents divorced and Assata went to live with her mother and aunt and her grandparents in Jamaica, New York. When she was 3 she moved with her grandparents to Wilmington, North Carolina.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Assata Shakur\|year=1988\|title=Assata}}</ref>		Assata Shakur was born JoAnne Deborah Byron on 16 July 1947. She had one sister, Beverly, who was five years younger than her. Shortly after she was born her parents divorced and Assata went to live with her mother and aunt and her grandparents in Jamaica, New York. When she was 3 she moved with her grandparents to Wilmington, North Carolina.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Assata Shakur\|year=1988\|title=Assata}}</ref>

	== Political Activism ==		== Political Activism ==

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	== See Also ==		== See Also ==
	[[Quotes:Assata Shakur]]		[[Quotes:Assata Shakur]]

			[[Library:Assata: An Autobiography]]

	== References ==		== References ==
	[[Category:Black Panther Party]]		[[Category:Black Panther Party]]
	[[Category:Targets of intelligence operations]]		[[Category:Targets of intelligence operations]]

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	'''Assata Shakur''' is a political activist from the United States. She was targeted by [[COINTELPRO]] and escaped to [[Republic of Cuba\|Cuba]], where she now lives in exile.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=Rachel Domond\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman\|date=2021-08-23\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212083745/https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-date=2022-02-12\|retrieved=2022-08-29}}</ref>		'''Assata Shakur''' is a political activist from the United States. She was targeted by [[COINTELPRO]] and escaped to [[Republic of Cuba\|Cuba]], where she now lives in exile.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation\|author=Rachel Domond\|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]\|title=Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman\|date=2021-08-23\|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212083745/https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/\|archive-date=2022-02-12\|retrieved=2022-08-29}}</ref>

	== Political ~~career~~ ==		== Early Life ==
			Assata Shakur was born JoAnne Deborah Byron on July 16 1947. She has one sister, Beverly, who is five years younger than her. Shortly after she was born her parents divorced and Assata went to live with her mother and aunt and her grandparents in Jamaica, New York. When she was 3 she moved with her grandparents to Wilmington, North Carolina.<ref>{{Citation\|author=Assata Shakur\|year=1988\|title=Assata}}</ref>

			== Political Activism ==
	Shakur protested against the [[Vietnam War\|U.S. invasion of Vietnam]] while in college. After graduating, she moved to Oakland, [[California]] and joined the [[Black Panther Party]]. She later returned to New York City to lead the Black Panther branch in Harlem. In 1971, the police pulled her over and shot her in the stomach, beginning a shootout that killed [[Zayd Shakur]], another Black Panther, and one police officer. Shakur and another revolutionary, [[Sundiata Acoli]], were sent to prison, but Shakur escaped to Cuba.<ref name=":0" />		Shakur protested against the [[Vietnam War\|U.S. invasion of Vietnam]] while in college. After graduating, she moved to Oakland, [[California]] and joined the [[Black Panther Party]]. She later returned to New York City to lead the Black Panther branch in Harlem. In 1971, the police pulled her over and shot her in the stomach, beginning a shootout that killed [[Zayd Shakur]], another Black Panther, and one police officer. Shakur and another revolutionary, [[Sundiata Acoli]], were sent to prison, but Shakur escaped to Cuba.<ref name=":0" />

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	== See Also ==		== See Also ==
	[[Quotes:Assata Shakur~~\|Assata Shakur:Quotes~~]]		[[Quotes:Assata Shakur]]

	== References ==		== References ==
	[[Category:Black Panther Party]]		[[Category:Black Panther Party]]
	[[Category:Targets of intelligence operations]]		[[Category:Targets of intelligence operations]]

Deogeo at 18:39, 4 March 2023

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	== Political career ==		== Political career ==
	Shakur protested against the [[Vietnam War\|U.S. invasion of Vietnam]] while in college. After graduating, she moved to Oakland, [[California]] and joined the [[Black Panther Party]]. She later returned to New York City to lead the Black Panther branch in Harlem. In 1971, the police pulled her over and shot her in the stomach, beginning a shootout that killed [[Zayd Shakur]], another Black Panther, and one police officer. Shakur and another revolutionary, [[Sundiata Acoli]], were sent to prison, but Shakur escaped to Cuba.<ref name=":0" />		Shakur protested against the [[Vietnam War\|U.S. invasion of Vietnam]] while in college. After graduating, she moved to Oakland, [[California]] and joined the [[Black Panther Party]]. She later returned to New York City to lead the Black Panther branch in Harlem. In 1971, the police pulled her over and shot her in the stomach, beginning a shootout that killed [[Zayd Shakur]], another Black Panther, and one police officer. Shakur and another revolutionary, [[Sundiata Acoli]], were sent to prison, but Shakur escaped to Cuba.<ref name=":0" />

			== See Also ==
			[[Quotes:Assata Shakur\|Assata Shakur:Quotes]]

	== References ==		== References ==
	[[Category:Black Panther Party]]		[[Category:Black Panther Party]]
	[[Category:Targets of intelligence operations]]		[[Category:Targets of intelligence operations]]

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{{Infobox person|name=Assata Shakur|birth_name=JoAnne Deborah Byron|birth_date=July 16, 1947|birth_place=New York City, [[United States of America|United States]]|image=Assata Shakur.png}}

'''Assata Shakur''' is a political activist from the United States. She was targeted by [[COINTELPRO]] and escaped to [[Republic of Cuba|Cuba]], where she now lives in exile.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Rachel Domond|newspaper=[[Liberation School]]|title=Assata Shakur: The making of a revolutionary woman|date=2021-08-23|url=https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212083745/https://www.liberationschool.org/assata-shakur-the-making-of-a-revolutionary-woman/|archive-date=2022-02-12|retrieved=2022-08-29}}</ref>

== Political career ==
Shakur protested against the [[Vietnam War|U.S. invasion of Vietnam]] while in college. After graduating, she moved to Oakland, [[California]] and joined the [[Black Panther Party]]. She later returned to New York City to lead the Black Panther branch in Harlem. In 1971, the police pulled her over and shot her in the stomach, beginning a shootout that killed [[Zayd Shakur]], another Black Panther, and one police officer. Shakur and another revolutionary, [[Sundiata Acoli]], were sent to prison, but Shakur escaped to Cuba.<ref name=":0" />

== References ==
[[Category:Black Panther Party]]
[[Category:Targets of intelligence operations]]