She was the third woman ever placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted list. The charges were built on guns she had legally purchased. An all-white jury acquitted her of every count.
Between 1971 and 1973, Shakur was charged with six separate crimes. She was acquitted of every charge except one — tried before an all-white jury in Morris County.
Nine months before Rosa Parks, a fifteen-year-old girl did the exact same thing. She became Plaintiff #1 in the case that ended bus segregation. The NAACP chose someone else to remember.
File #100-44018 reveals Hoover identified Hampton as a “key agitator” fourteen months before the raid. O’Neal drew the floor plan. The red X marked where Hampton slept.