Jomo Joka Omowale papers, 1969-2008.

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Jomo Joka Omowale papers, 1969-2008.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/703861044

Collection includes court transcripts, legal papers and correspondence, court documents, press coverage and clippings, and internal prison policies and procedures from Omowale's many years in various prisons. Cases include armed robbery in Virginia, the Attica riots and subsequent trials, three trials regarding a police shooting in Brooklyn, and a murder of a drug dealer in Virginia. Omowale was convicted in the final case, and his pursuit of parole in Virginia following the elimination of parole in the 1990s is another significant component of the collection. Other materials include prisoner poetry and writings, personal correspondence between Jomo and his family, prisoner poetry, Attica Brothers Legal Defense materials, and court documents regarding a White Panther Party trial in 1970. Also includes hundreds of mugshots from New York.

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8031232

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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