Marilyn Jean Buck was an American Marxist, feminist poet, and anti-war, anti-imperialist, and anti-racist activist, who was imprisoned for her participation in the 1979 prison escape of Assata Shakur,
The Black Liberation Army was an underground Marxist–Leninist, black nationalist militant organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981. It was most active in the early 1970s. Comp
Marilyn Buck
…with help from a number of associates outside. In 1983, Buck was recaptured and convicted of participating in Shakur's escape. Along with a number of Black Liberation Army members and supporters, Buck was convicted of conspiracies to commit armed robbery in the Brinks robbery of 1981, in which a guard and two police…