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Amadou Bailo Diallo was born on September 2, 1975 in the village of Sinoe, Liberia, West Africa. He was the first of four children born to Saikou and Kadiatou Diallo. Amadou has one sister, Laouratou, and two brothers, Ibrahima and Abdul Salaam. Because his father was a businessman, Amadou traveled throughout much of his childhood living in Togo, Guinea, Bangkok and Singapore. Amadou grew up with a love of reading, music, dancing and sports. Once in the United States, he became an avid basketball fan, in particular, Michael Jordan.
Amadou had a passion for education and attended some of the finest schools in the world, including The French International School, England's Cambridge University, The British Consulate College in Thailand and the Asian Institute of Microsoft. It was Amadou's dream to one day enroll in school in the United States.
In September 1996, at twenty years old, Amadou came to America. Upon his arrival in New York, Amadou worked as a deliveryman. Later, he became a street peddler selling gloves, socks and videotapes in Manhattan on 14th Street. He worked six days a week, 12 hours a day. However, he still dreamed of pursuing his education in America.
A spiritual person, when Amadou was about 18 years old, he began to focus and collect books on his religion, studying the Koran and praying five times a day in the Muslim tradition. When the family came to collect Amadou's belongings after his death, they found solace in what they discovered. Among the many things they found were writings where Amadou had begun to research the prophets. He had written the names of all the prophets along with the dates of their birth. He had highlighted passages in the Koran that spoke about the dialogues between Christians and Muslims. Amadou was on a spiritual journey.
Amadou was killed after Midnight on February 4, 1999, by four New York City police officers from the Street Crime Unit. Amadou had come home from work to his apartment at 1157 Wheeler Avenue in the Soundview Section of the Bronx and decided to go back out to get something to eat. Upon his return, he encountered the police officers who ultimately fired a fuselage of 41 shots, 19 of which riddled his body. Amadou was unarmed and did not threaten the officers in any way. Diallo’s death sparked massive public demonstrations against police brutality and racial profiling.
RADIO AT COLUMBIA GRADUATE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM INTERVIEW.
Reporter Gabrielle Galanek takes us to a Harlem gallery honoring Amadou Diallo, the unarmed West Afican immigrant killed by New York City police officers seven years ago:
"Gallery remembers slain immigrant Diallo"
UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON online newspaper, "The Uhclidian", story:
"Slain Immigrant Remembered Through Art"
THE SOCIALIST WORKER ONLINE review by Eva Woods Peiró:
"How the cops murdered Amadou"
Amadou Diallo(image from Diallo foundation)
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News Clip from NY1
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Invitation response from Compressman Charles B. Rangel
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Photo by Jim Carroll
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Photo by Jim Carroll
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Night Scene II
68X70 in.
Oil on Linen
1994
Eric Alugas
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Stand-Up Please!
72 x36 in.
oil&mixed media on canvas,
2000
Eric Alugas
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Amadou Diallo, 2002
24 x 20 in.
oil on canvas
Artist Malch Zeldis
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