A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters Of George Jackson

Biographies & Memoirs

Jackson, George

Genet, Jean (intro)

Memoirs

Penguin Books, Ltd.

<p>Blood In My Eye was completed only days before it's author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced from one year to life. He was to spent the rest of his life -- eleven years-- in the California prison system, seven in solidary confinement. In prison he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and political theoretician who defined himself as a revolutionary.</p>

Blood in My Eye

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)

A young man's religion

Trieste Publishing

Coward, McCann

Cobol

Science & Math

Mathematics

Tab Books

Computers & Technology

Being Black: Selections from "Soledad Brother" by George Jackson and "Soul on Ice" by Eldridge Cleaver: with Questions and Notes

History

Cleaver, Eldridge

Harris, Roxy

Americas

New Beacon Books

First Things First Address to Young Men

Legare Street Press

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