About Organizations
Black Panther Party
Black Liberation Army
American Indian Movement
FALN
Weather Underground
Earth Liberation Front
Animal Liberation Front
MOVE
Republic of New Afrika
Symbionese Liberation Army
Los Macheteros
United Freedom Front
May 19th Communist Organization
Young Lords
George Jackson Brigade
Students for a Democratic Society
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Industrial Workers of the World
Communist Party USA
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Brown Berets
Socialist Workers Party
African People's Socialist Party
Nation of Islam
About Black Liberation Army
Emergence from the Panther Splits
Killing of NYPD Officers Piagentini & Jones
Killing of NYPD Officers Foster & Laurie
Delta Flight 841 Hijacking
New Jersey Turnpike Shootout & the Assata Shakur Case
Assata Shakur’s Prison Escape
The 1981 Brink’s Robbery
Mutulu Shakur Prosecution
Long-Term Political-Prisoner Campaigns
BLACK LIBERATION ARMY
The Black Liberation Army was a clandestine armed formation that emerged from the Black Panther Party in the early 1970s, after FBI repression and internal splits drove some members underground. Operating as a decentralized network of cells, it carried out a campaign against the police and became the target of one of the largest federal manhunts of the era. Its members were prosecuted in a series of high-profile cases, and a number remain among the longest-held political prisoners in the United States. The events below trace the BLA's emergence, its armed campaign, and the prosecutions and prisoner-support movements that followed.
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