| LC control no. | n 82100866 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Bishop, Maurice |
| Associated country | England |
| Located | Grenada |
| Birth date | 1944-05-29 |
| Death date | 1983-10-19 |
| Place of birth | Aruba |
| Place of death | Grenada |
| Field of activity | Grenada--Politics and government |
| Affiliation | Holborn College of Law, Languages and Commerce New Jewel Movement (Grenada) People's Revolutionary Government (Grenada) Grenada. Prime Minister Movement for Assemblies of the People |
| Profession or occupation | Politicians Prime ministers |
| Found in | Education is production too, 1981: t.p. (Comrade Prime Minister Maurice Bishop) p. 1 (of Grenada) DaBreo, D.S. Grenada's democracy on trial, 1984?: p. 72 (Maurice Rupert Bishop, b. 5-29-44) p. 5 (d. 10-19-83) Wikipedia, June 4, 2014 (Maurice Rupert Bishop (May 29, 1944 - Oct. 19, 1983) was a Grenadian politician and revolutionary who seized power in a coup in 1979 from Eric Gairy and served as Prime Minister of the People's Revolutionary Government of Grenada until 1983, when he was overthrown in another coup by Bernard Coard, a member of his own government, and executed) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Bishop> Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition, accessed June 9, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Bishop, Maurice; prime minister; revolutionary leader; born 1944 in Aruba; educated in Catholic schools in St. George's; at Gray's Inn, London University's Holborn College of Law, and King's College, England (1963-1970); went into private legal practice in Grenada (1970); cofounded a discussion group, which evolved into the political organization Movement for Assemblies of the People (MAP); became leader of the new joint (MAP with Joint Endeavour for the Welfare, Education and Liberation of the People (JEWEL) organization, the New Jewel Movement (NJM) (1973); NJM's leaders were jailed (1974); after elections became the minority leader in Grenada's government (1976); after a bloodless coup, became prime minister in the People's Revolutionary Government (PRG) (1979), patterned after Fidel Castro's Cuban government; United States imposed political and economic sanctions on Grenada, which led to a split within the PRG; he was placed under house arrest (1983); was executed after an attempt to be freed by a crowd of demonstrators; died 19 October, 1983 in Grenada) |
| Associated language | eng |
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