Editing Mumia Abu-Jamal (section)

== Return to education==
After leaving the Panthers, Abu-Jamal returned as a student to his former high school. He was suspended for distributing literature calling for "black revolutionary student power".<ref name="naacp">{{cite web | last=Shaw | first=Theodore M. |author2=Chachkin, Norman J. |author3=Swarns, Christina A. | title=Brief of ''amicus curiae'' | work=Mumia Abu-Jamal v. Martin Horn, Pennsylvania Director of Corrections, et al. | publisher=[[NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund]] | date=July 27, 2007 | url=http://www.naacpldf.org/content/pdf/jury/Abu-Jamal_v_Horn_amicus_brief.pdf | access-date=January 22, 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20071202082956/http://www.naacpldf.org/content/pdf/jury/Abu-Jamal_v_Horn_amicus_brief.pdf |archive-date = December 2, 2007}}</ref> He led unsuccessful protests to change the school name to [[Malcolm X]] High, to honor the major African-American leader who had been killed in New York by political opponents.<ref name="naacp" />

After attaining his [[General Educational Development|GED]], Abu-Jamal studied briefly at [[Goddard College]] in rural [[Vermont]].<ref name="tsb">{{cite journal | last=Burroughs | first=Todd Steven | title=Mumia's voice: confined to Pennsylvania's death row, Mumia Abu-Jamal remains at the center of debate as he continues to write and options to appeal his police murder conviction dwindle | journal=[[Black Issues Book Review]] | date=September 1, 2004 | url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Mumia%27s+voice%3A+confined+to+Pennsylvania%27s+death+row,+Mumia+Abu-Jamal...-a0121572304 | access-date=June 18, 2011}}</ref> He returned to Philadelphia.