Wanted by FBI: Cheri Laverne Dalton [wanted poster]

Washington DC: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1987. 8x8 inch mini-poster of the type distributed to post offices for public display; neat horizontal fold crease, as issued, with list of FBI offices on the back. Very good. This version revised July 29, 1987. Includes facsimile of her signature as Betty W. Carter, one of the aliases she used.

Dalton, who adopted the name Nehanda Isoke Abiodun, was wanted for involvement in the 1981 robbery of a Brinks armored truck to raise funds for the Black Liberation Army, as well as for helping Assata Shakur escape from prison in 1979. Like Shakur, she made her way to Cuba and continued her activism there in the realm of music, becoming known as the "godmother" of Cuban hip-hop. An obituary on AfroCubaWeb quoted her as stating, "Wherever you go...in the world, from New Zealand to Timbuktu, there are rappers. Wherever you go! And once you step out of the U.S., a large part of that global community of hip hoppers are progressive. Seriously, because most of it comes from the indigenous people of that particular place."

Cat.No: 333227

Price: $150.00