Abu-Jamal, Mumia

LC control no.	n 94122454
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Abu-Jamal, Mumia *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Jamal, Mumia Abu-
Other standard no.	Q156133 64109252
Biography/History note	Mumia Abu-Jamal is an African American author and former member of the Black Panther Party.
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1954-04-24
Place of birth	Philadelphia (Pa.)
Affiliation	Black Panther Party Goddard College California State University, Dominguez Hills State Correctional Institution at Greene (Pa.) Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists
Profession or occupation	Radio journalists Prisoners
Found in	Live from death row, c1995: CIP t.p. (Mumia Abu-Jamal) Death blossoms, c1997: CIP t.p. (Mumia Abu-Jamal) data sheet (b. 04-24-1954) African American National Biography, accessed October 16, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Abu-Jamal, Mumia; Wesley Cook; radio journalist, organization founder/official; born 24 April 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States; helped found the Philadelphia chapter of the Black Panther Party and became its lieutenant of information (1969); studied at Goddard College in Vermont, but did not graduate; worked on assignments for Philadelphia radio stations (1974); his reporting aired on National Public Radio, National Black Network, Mutual Black Network, and Associated Press Radio; elected president of the Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists; convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death (1982); few days before his scheduled execution, the death warrant was vacated (1995); second death warrant was vacated (1999); through distance learning he obtained a BA from Goddard College and an MA from California State University-Dominguez Hills while at State Correctional Institution at Greene (Pa.); published articles in the Nation and the Yale Law Journal and delivered recorded commencement addresses at several liberal arts colleges; the Third Circuit Court of Appeals reaffirmed its 2008 ruling to vacate the death sentence because Abu-Jamal's sentencing hearing had been unfair (2010); the Philadelphia District Attorney's office then petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to resinstate the death penalty, but in October 2011 the highest court refused to hear that appeal; the District Attorney's office announced that it would abandon its effort to execute Abu-Jamal (2011); he was released to the general prison population to serve life sentence) Abu-Jamal, Mumia. Live from Death Row, 1995: page 5 (You will find a blacker world on death row than anywhere else... There, too, you will find this writer.) Du lynchage des Noirs dans les rues au lynchage judiciaire des Noirs, 2020: cover p. 4 (Mumia Abu-Jamal, African American journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death for the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner)
Associated language	eng
Invalid LCCN	n 2021033643