Assata Olugbala Shakur, also known as Joanne Chesimard, is an American political activist and convicted murderer who was a member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA). In 1977, she was convicted in the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and is currently wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million FBI reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the Attorney General of New Jersey.
Photograph taken in 1977
New York City Police Department mugshot of Shakur, April 1971
Police stand next to the patrol car that was destroyed by a hand grenade attack on December 20, 1971.
Lawyer William Kunstler was the chief of Shakur's defense staff.
The City College of the City University of New York is a public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York City. Founded in 1847, City College was the first free public institution of higher education in the United States. It is the oldest of CUNY's 25 institutions of higher learning and is considered its flagship institution.
Harris Hall
Original St. Nicholas Terrace entrance to Shepard Hall, the main building of CCNY, in the early 1900s, on its new campus in Hamilton Heights, looking up and westward from St. Nicholas Avenue
View in 1876
Statue of General Alexander S. Webb (1835–1911), second president of CCNY (1869–1903)
