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Assata Shakur

1947 - 2025

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Assata Olugbala Shakur ( ə-SAH-tə shə-KOOR; born JoAnne Deborah Byron, July 16, 1947 – September 25, 2025) was an American political activist, revolutionary, and fugitive who was a member of the Black Panther Party, and later the Black Liberation Army in 1971. In 1977, she was convicted of the first-degree murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. She escaped from prison in 1979 and was wanted by the FBI, with a $1 million reward for information leading to her capture, and an additional $1 million reward offered by the New Jersey attorney general. She was never caught and remained a fugitive for 45 years. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2024). Assata Shakur is the 500th most popular social activist (down from 497th in 2024), the 7,427th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,993rd in 2019) and the 69th most popular American Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Assata Shakur ranks 500 out of 840. Before her are Gertrud Adelborg, Jack Sheppard, Giuseppe Impastato, Shireen Abu Akleh, Danuta Wałęsa, and Malalai of Maiwand. After her are Joseph Wresinski, Kim Ok, Xiomara Acevedo, Eugen Drewermann, Medgar Evers, and Ōsugi Sakae.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Assata Shakur ranks 538. Before her are Dương Thu Hương, Tatyana Vasilyeva, Moufida Tlatli, Sef Vergoossen, Abraham Laboriel, and Guy François. After her are Geydar Dzhemal, Haim Katz, Bill Smitrovich, Mark Dvoretsky, Job Cohen, and Terje Rypdal. Among people deceased in 2025, Assata Shakur ranks 314. Before her are Florence Delay, Gino Pivatelli, Bernd Cullmann, Antonio Bailetti, Ileana Silai, and Fauja Singh. After her are Patricia Routledge, Jan Lála, Miguel Ángel Russo, Eduardo Serra, Roman Starovoyt, and David Johansen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Assata Shakur ranks 7,429 out of 20,380. Before her are Samuel Ryan Curtis (1805), Dennis Ralston (1942), Mario Cuomo (1932), Richard D. Zanuck (1934), Sandy Dennis (1937), and Marilyn Miller (1898). After her are Jeffrey Donovan (1968), Johnny Mathis (1935), Frederick Townsend Ward (1831), Lisa Murkowski (1957), Edith Clarke (1883), and Patrick Kilpatrick (1949).

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In United States

Among social activists born in United States, Assata Shakur ranks 69. Before her are Eugene V. Debs (1855), Mary Edwards Walker (1832), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Pretty Boy Floyd (1904), Tarana Burke (1973), and Sam Childers (1963). After her are Medgar Evers (1925), Lucy Stone (1818), Ruby Bridges (1954), Katie Eder (1950), Mumia Abu-Jamal (1954), and Abraham Flexner (1866).

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