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Phoolan Devi was born in the small village of Gorha Ka Purwa, Uttar Pradesh, India. At 11 years of age she was married to a widower 20 years elder to her who would rape and mistreat her. Her husband abandoned her and her family disowned her.

In the late 1970s, a gang of dacoits abducted Phoolan. The gang leader tried to rape her but Vikram, the deputy leader belonged to Phoolan's caste, Mallah. Baboo was killed by Vikram during an attempt and he became the gang leader. Phoolan became his second wife. While ransacking the village where Phoolan's former husband lived, Phoolan stabbed him, dragged him in front of the villagers, and left him lying by a road, with a note warning old men who marry young girls.

Phoolan was lated abducted, locked up in the Behmai village, and raped by many men. She escaped with two other Mallahs from Vikram's gang, and created a new gang of Mallahs, that she led. Phoolan Devi began to be called the Bandit Queen and was infamous for robbing the upper-caste and sharing the take with the lower-caste. Dolls of Phoolan Devi dressed as Hindu goddess Durga were sold in market towns in Uttar Pradesh. She was glorified by much of the Indian media.

The Indira Gandhi Government decided to negotiate a surrender because even though Phoolan Devi was in poor health and most of her gang members were dead, she could not be captured. In February 1983, she agreed to surrender to the authorities.

In 1996, Phoolan Devi ran for a seat in the Parliament as a Samajwadi Party candidate and was elected as an Member of Parliament. In 1998, Phoolan Devi was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by some members of the British Parliament. She lost a bid for re-election in 1998, but was returned to office the following year. On July 25, 2001, Phoolan Devi was shot dead as she got out of her car at the gate of her New Delhi residence. The assailants also wounded her bodyguard, and escaped in an auto rickshaw.

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Robert and Mabel Williams grew up in the town of Monroe, North Carolina- which also happens to be the birth place of the racist former US Senator Jesse helms. Indeed, it was after witnessing Helms' father-also the chief of police in the 1950s and 1960s-beating a black woman that Robert Williams made a personal commitment to fight racism. This commitment would lead Williams to join the NAACP and organize a series of protests whose purpose was to open the public swimming pool in town to its black citizens. This innocent demand evolved into an armed confrontation with hundreds of Klansmen and their supporters-and only to use the pool one day a week!

This struggle convinced Rob that non-violent resistance to racist oppression was doomed to failure. Only when backed by the possibility of armed self-defense could it be effective. This approach played itself out repeatedly as the struggles of the 1960s and 1970s rolled on. The Williams also understood the nature of imperialism and the place of the US black liberation struggle in the world wide struggle against the US' war to conquer the planet. Kidnapping charges were brought against the couple and they were forced to leave the US. Robert and Mabel sought asylum in places like Cuba, China, Vietnam, and the Soviet Union. Robert never ceased detailing the ways that the worldwide struggle against US imperialism and the black liberation struggle in the US were one and the same. They made shortwave broadcasts on Radio Free Dixie and a newspaper, The Crusader. This approach was adopted by the Black Panthers and Malcolm X.

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Assata Shakur is an activist and member of the Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army, for which the FBI hunted and harassed her. She is the godmother of hip hop artist Tupac Shakur.

On May 2, 1973, just after midnight, Shakur and two friends, were stopped on the New Jersey Turnpike for driving with a broken taillight. Zayd Shakur and Trooper Foerester were killed in the ensuing shootout, Assata Shakur and Trooper Harper were injured.

After having her court case delayed repeatedly and someone else convicted of firing the fatal shots - a total of 289 articles were published locally, portraying Shakur as dangerous and mentioning her alleged involvement in the various violent crimes for which she had not been convicted.

Medical evidence demonstrated that Assata was shot with her hands up and that she would have been subsequently unable to fire a weapon. A neurologist testified that the median nerve in Shakur's right arm was severed by the second bullet, making her unable to pull a trigger. They also testified that these injuries were possible only if both arms were raised at the time of being shot. Dr. David Spain, a pathologist, testified that there was "no conceivable way" the first bullet could have hit Shakur's clavicle if her arm was down. Police and FBI crime lab Neutron activation analysis showed no gun powder residue on Shakur's fingers and her fingerprints not on any weapon. Under cross-examination at Shakur's trial, Trooper Harper admitted to having lied in reports and in Grand Jury testimony that he had fired after Shakur drew a 9mm weapon and shot at him first.

Shakur was convicted as an accomplice in the murder of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster but being an accomplice carries an equivalent life sentence in New Jersey. An all white jury convicted, five of which had personal ties to the State Troopers (one girlfriend, two nephews, and two friends). She was sentenced to 26-33 years in state prison for assault and weapons charges which was to be served consecutively with her mandatory life sentence for being an accomplice to murder.

On November 2, 1979 she escaped the Clinton Correctional Facility for Women in New Jersey, after members of the Black Liberation Army conducted an armed action. She fled to Cuba in 1984 where she was granted political asylum, having never received a fair trial. She published "Assata: An Autobiography", which was written in Cuba, in 1987. On May 2, 2005, the 32nd anniversary of the shooting, the FBI classified her as a "domestic terrorist", increasing the reward for assistance in her capture to $1 million.

A Black Muslim Minister and spokesman for the Nation of Islam and one of the most prominent black nationalist leaders in the United States. As a militant leader, Malcolm X advocated black pride, black power, economic self-reliance, and identity politics. He ultimately rose to become a world-renowned African American/Pan-Africanist and human rights activist.

Malcolm X graduated from junior high school at the top of his class, but dropped out soon after a teacher told him that his aspirations of being a lawyer were "no realistic goal for a nigger".

In December 1953, a little more than a year after he was paroled from prison, Malcolm was named the minister at the NOI’s Boston mosque, Temple No. 11. The following year he also became the minister at Temple No. 12 (Philadelphia) and Temple No. 7 (New York).

In the 1960s, Malcolm was invited to participate in numerous debates, including radio stations (Los Angeles, New York, Washington), television programs (“Open Mind,” “The Mike Wallace News Program”) and universities (Harvard Law School, Howard University, Columbia University). In 1963, the New York Times reported that Malcolm X was the second most sought after speaker in the US. On June 29, 1963 Malcolm lead one of the largest civil rights events - the Unity Rally in Harlem. Cassius Clay met Malcolm and converted to the Muslim religion and joined the Nation of Islam. In February 1964, he changed his name to Muhammad Ali. Malcolm formed the Muslim Mosque, Inc and the Organizations of Afro-American Unity.

On March 20, 1964, Life published a photograph of Malcolm holding an M1 Carbine and pulling back the curtains to peer out of the window of his family's home. The photo was taken in connection with Malcolm's declaration that he would defend himself from the daily death threats which he and his family were receiving. Undercover FBI informants warned officials that he had been marked for assassination. The following February at Manhattan's Audubon Ballroom, Malcolm delivered a speech to 400 people A disturbance broke out and three men rushed forward and shot Malcolm 16 times with handguns and a sawed-off shotgun.

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Phoolan Devi: "What others called a crime, I called justice." February 1981: A 24 year old village woman, born into poverty in India, is labeled 'The Bandit Queen'. She is charged with a number of major offenses including murder, kidnap for ransom and looting villages. Most importantly, she is accused of killing 22 high-caste men in the village of Behmai, a massacre undertaken as revenge for the death of her lover and repeated gang rape against herself. The question was often asked how a poor, uneducated and illiterate woman became a bandit. But Phoolan Devi's life, and the injustice she suffered because of her gender and her class, only make us wonder why other low-caste women (for Phoolan's experiences were not in any way unique) did not also become bandits.