His unique and incisively critical perspective becomes the unifying thread that ties together this collection of letters and essays in which he presents his analysis of armed struggle, class war, fascism, communism, and a wide array of other topics. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced from one year to life. George Jackson died on Augat the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. His grave was supposed to be behind your grandfather's and grandmother's. Blood In My Eye was completed only days before it's author was killed. Blood in my eye Available at Penfield Library Circulating Collection. In prison, he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and political theoretician who defined himself as a revolutionary.īlood In My Eye captures the spirit of George Jackson's legendary resistance to unbridled oppression and racism. Jackson My dear only surviving son, 1 went to Mount Vernon August 7lh, 1971, to visit the grave site of my heart your keepers murdered in cold disregard for life. Baltimore, MD : Black Classic Press 1990. Jackson (E-Book) Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. He was to spend the rest of his life - eleven years- in the California prison system, seven in solitary confinement.

Blood In My Eye was completed only days before it's author was killed.

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