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Shakur, Afeni

LC control no.no2003107302
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Personal name headingShakur, Afeni
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Variant(s)Williams, Alice Faye
LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
Birth date1947-01-10
Death date2016-05-02
Place of birthLumberton (N.C.)
Place of deathSan Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
AffiliationBlack Panther Party
Profession or occupationCivil rights workers
Found inShakur, T. Tupac, c2003: t.p. (Afeni Shakur)
2PAClegacy.com, Oct. 23, 2003 (Afeni Shakur; b. Alice Faye Williams, Lumberton, N.C.; activist, mother of Tupac Amaru Shakur)
New York times WWW site, viewed May 4, 2016 (in obituary published May 3: Afeni Shakur; b. Alice Faye Williams, Jan. 10, 1947, Lumberton, N.C.; moved to New York with her family in the 1960s; changed her name after joining the Black Panther movement; d. Monday [May 2, 2016], in the San Francisco Bay Area, aged 69; civil rights activist and former Black Panther whose tumultuous but close relationship with her son, the rapper Tupac Shakur, was the inspiration for much of his work)
Associated languageeng