1. Assata Shakur
... let her say "yes ma"am" or "yes sir" and she was to look at white people in the eyes when she talked to them. Shakur's grandparents opened up a business on their beachfront property. Her early childhood was spent working for her grandparents in the restaurant and on the beach. As a ... kid she would go to the beach and while she was there she would notice that most of the blacks were wearing clothes to swim in. They would ... was the north going to war because they could not compete with the southern slaveholders. "The south was a threat to northern capitalism." Assata became intereste...
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- Grade Level: High School