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H. Rap Brown, one of the most prominent leaders of the African American movement in the United Statesthe so-called Black Power, He died at the age of 82 in the hospital of a prison while serving a life sentence.
According to reports The New York Times, Jamil Abdullah Al-Aminknown as H. Rap Brownled African American militancy in the 1960s with a call to arms against white oppression and subsequently lived discreetly as a Muslim cleric and merchant until his arrest in 2000 by the murder of a sheriff’s deputy.
Rap Brown He was serving time in a federal prison in North Carolina. and his death occurred in the hospital of said penitentiary center.
His death was confirmed by Kristie Breshears, director of communications for the Federal Bureau of Prisons, which manages the hospital, who did not specify the cause of death, although a local newspaper stated a few months ago that He suffered from multiple myeloma.
Before convert to islam and changing his name in the 1970s, Al-Amin was one of the most vocal speakers among Black Power activists that emerged in the late 1960s to challenge the leadership and nonviolent strategy of the civil rights movement, recalls the Times.
“Violence is necessary”
An admirer of the Cuban revolution, he preached armed resistance and separatism with statements such as: “Violence is necessary. Violence is part of American culture. It’s as American as cherry pie.”
Elected president of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in May 1967, he immediately made his mark by getting the word “nonviolent” removed from its name and persuading the organization’s leaders to change it to the National Student Coordinating Committee.
He had several legal proceedings in which he was indicted on federal and state charges in five cities and went into hiding in 1970 and spent 18 months on the FBI’s most wanted list.
He reappeared in Manhattan on October 16, 1971, injured in a shooting with the New York City police.
Police said he and several accomplices attempted to rob a tavern in northern Manhattan and exchanged gunfire with officers pursuing them. One of those shots killed to the sheriff’s deputy, which led to him being sentenced to life imprisonment.