Biography
Elijah Abrams was named by Jihad Abdulmumit as a fellow Rochester youth organizer arrested with him in 1976.
In his June 2025 oral history, Jihad Abdulmumit names Elijah Abrams among four Rochester Federation of Youth members arrested together in 1976. Abdulmumit describes bank robberies undertaken alongside underground Black liberation work and a shootout at the arrest. This retrospective account does not establish Abrams’s individual conviction, admission, release or custody duration.
Community Movement Builders oral history, edited excerpt published August 19, 2025.
