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Betty Shabazz

Born May 28, 1940, in Detroit, Michigan Died June 23, 1997, in Yonkers, New York

Dr. Betty Shabazz was formerly the director of communications and public relations for Medgar Evers College of the City University of New York. After the assassination in 1965 of her husband, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, better known as Malcom X, she earned a master’s degree in health administration and a doctorate in curriculum development and higher education administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She was also the host of a radio program, “A Forum for Women,” in New York City. ...

1986
gelatin silver print
29.0 x 27.0 x 1.5 in