Pratt, Elmer Geronimo

LC control no.	n 85829800
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Pratt, Elmer Geronimo *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Pratt, Geronimo ji Jaga, Geronimo Jaga, Geronimo ji
Biography/History note	Individual was a Purple Heart medal awardee.
Associated country	United States
Birth date	19470913
Death date	20110602
Place of birth	Morgan City (La.)
Place of death	Tanzania
Field of activity	Black nationalism
Affiliation	Black Panther Party United States. Army University of California, Los Angeles Kuji Foundation
Profession or occupation	Soldiers
Found in	nuc85-79443: His The new urban guerilla, 1971 (hdg. on IU rept.: Pratt, Elmer Geronimo; usage: Elmer Geronimo Pratt) Free Geronimo Pratt, 1980: t.p. (Geronimo Pratt) Los Angeles times WWW site, June 3, 2011 (Elmer G. "Geronimo" Pratt; also went by Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt; b. Sept. 13, 1947, Morgan City, La.; d. Thursday [June 2, 2011], Tanzania, at 63; former Los Angeles Black Panther Party leader whose 1972 murder conviction was overturned after he spent 27 years in prison for a crime he said he did not commit) African American National Biography, accessed March 8, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Pratt, Geronimo; Elmer Gerard Pratt; black nationalist; born 13 September 1947 in Morgan City, Louisiana, United States; joined the U.S. Army (1965); completed paratrooper training at Fort Benning, Georgia and was sent to Vietnam; was awarded the Soldier's Medal, the Purple Heart and the Air Medal; enrolled in the High Potential Program at the University of California, Los Angeles (1968); became leader of the Black Panther Party (1969); was arrested in Dallas (1970), extradited to Los Angeles, charged with murder, convicted and sentenced to life in prison (1972); eventually his conviction was reversed and he was released from prison (1997); settled a suit against the city of Los Angeles and the FBI for false imprisonment and violation of civil rights (2000); co-founded the Kuji Foundation (1999); died 02 June 2011 in Tanzania) 500 years of resistance, [1992]: t.p. (Geronimo ji Jaga)