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The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was an underground Marxist–Leninist, black-nationalist militant organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981. Composed of former Black Panthers (BPP) [2] and Republic of New Afrika (RNA) members who served above ground before going underground, the organization's program was one of war against the United States government, and its stated ...
Mutulu Shakur (born Jeral Wayne Williams; August 8, 1950 – July 7, 2023) was an African American activist, and a member of the Black Liberation Army who was sentenced to sixty years in prison for his involvement in a 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck in which a guard and two police officers were murdered.
The timeline of the Black Power movement covers major events and milestones in the history of this social and political movement.
Ali Bey Hassan - member of the Black Panther Party, 1968–1971 and Black Liberation Army, 1971–1973; Kim Holder - member of the Black Panther Party, 1969–1971; Mark Holder - member of the Black Panther Party, 1969–1971 and Black Liberation Army, 1971–1972; Michael McCarty - member of the Black Panther Party, 1968–1971 and acupuncture ...
Up Against the Wall: Violence in the Making and Unmaking of the Black Panther Party. University of Arkansas Press. ISBN 1-55728-827-5; McLellan, Vin, and Paul Avery. The Voices of Guns: The Definitive and Dramatic Story of the Twenty-two-month Career of the Symbionese Liberation Army. New York: Putnam, 1977.
Black Liberation Army member Thomas 'Blood' McCreary recruited the twenty-year-old Myers into the BLA in the early 1970s after meeting him in East Village. [3] McCreary claimed that he and Myers were part of a group of BLA members who plotted to carry out an attack against the Rhodesian consulate in New York in support of the Zimbabwe African National Union, but the plan was abandoned after ...
There were 7 crew and 94 passengers on board the Douglas DC-8 for the flight from Detroit to Miami. Members of the Black Liberation Army took over the aircraft in flight using weapons smuggled on board, including a handgun hidden inside a Bible with its pages cut out to form a cavity.
February – Black History Month is founded by Carter Woodson's Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History. The novel Roots: The Saga of an American Family by Alex Haley is published. 1977. Combahee River Collective, a Black feminist group, publishes the Combahee River Collective Statement.