Greg Thomas Syracuse Univesity United States In a letter to Angela Davis, Jackson wrote, "If my enemies, your enemies, prove stronger at least I want them to know that they made one righteous African man extremely angry." On another occasion he wrote, "They'll never count me among the broken men." As Blood In My Eye affirms, George Jackson remained unbroken.A Blade in the Throat of the FBI: George L. A fellow prisoner described him as "a very beautiful example of what a Black man should be." But even before that book, Jackson was a legendary figure inside the California prison system, known to all as an uncompromising individual. Jackson's first book, Soledad Brother: The Prison Writings of George Jackson, published in 1970, earned him the respect and admiration of progressive people around the world. And it was in that context that he came to terms with the death of his younger brother Jonathan- killed while attempting to free three Black prisoners from custody at a California courthouse. As a revolutionary he found meaning ni his daily prison existence. In prison he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and political theoretician who defined himself as a revolutionary. He was to spend the rest of his life- eleven years- in the California prison system, seven of them in solitary confinement.
At Age eighteen George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced to one year to life. George Jackson died on Augat the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. 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.īlood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. Blood In My Eye captures the spirit of George Jackson's legendary resistance to unbridled oppression and racism.
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