Introduction Movements Eras Organizations Index Contributions
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 Republic of New Afrika
Black Government Conference & RNA Founding Declaration of Independence & Provisional Government New Bethel Incident New Bethel Acquittals Relocation toward Mississippi Organizing Jackson, Mississippi Shootout RNA-11 Prosecutions Imari Obadele’s Imprisonment The Continuing New Afrikan Prisoner Tradition
RNA-11 PROSECUTIONS
RNA-11 Prosecutions

The eleven RNA members arrested after the August 1971 Jackson raid — known as the RNA-11 — faced long and grueling prosecutions in state and federal court on charges including murder, treason against the state of Mississippi, and assault. Several were convicted and given lengthy sentences.

The RNA-11 argued that they were prisoners of a national-liberation war and victims of a coordinated government attack, and their cases became a rallying point for the Black liberation movement. The prosecutions, and the decades some members spent in prison, made the RNA-11 enduring figures in the U.S. political-prisoner tradition.