Small collection of ephemera documenting the Free Mumia Abu-Jamal movement of the 1990s

Format:

Other

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Abu-Jamal, Mumia.

Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Live from death row.

MOVE (Organization).

Criminal justice, Administration of.

Political prisoners.

Activism.

Protest literature.

Protest movements--United States.

Protest movements.

Physical Description:

12 items : illustrations

Summary:

Small collection documenting the nascent "Free Mumia" movement of the mid-1990s, which expressed outrage against his conviction, demand for a new trial, and bringing widespread awareness to the case. Abu-Jamal's supporters included a variety of intellectuals, civil rights leaders, social and political activists in the U.S. and abroad.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is an American journalist and political activist. in 1982 he was tried and convicted for the murder of Daniel Faulkner, a police officer, in Philadelphia. Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death row, but was reduced to life in prison without parol in 2011

Contents:

1. List of protest chants for unknown rally

2. 2 postcards addressed to Commissioner Martin Horn and Governor Thomas Ridge

3. Mumia Abu-Jamal: Una vida de resistencia

4. Media Lies Exposed in the Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal

5. Ad for Revolution Books

6. group of protest fliers, including Pam Africa and MOVE

7. San Francisco Chronicle article discussing states and death penalty

8. Live From Death Row (book)

Local Notes:

Pennsylvania Abolition Society Complimentary Collection

HSP Activist Ephemera Collection

OCLC:

1452465488