Which organized group helped Assata Shakur escape from prison?
Black Panthers
May 19 Communist Organization
The Weather Underground
Civil Rights Liberation Front
Answer
The May 19th Communist Organization, an African American Marxist-Leninist group, is credited with orchestrating Assata Shakur's escape from the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in 1979. The group, named after the birthdate of revolutionary Malcolm X, was one of several black revolutionary organizations active in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s that advocated for the liberation of black people and the overthrow of the U.S. government.
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