The two founded the Black Guerrilla Family in 1966 based on Marxist and Maoist political thought. Nolen, who introduced him to Marxist and Maoist ideology. He was described by prison officials as egocentric and anti-social. ĭuring his first years at San Quentin State Prison, Jackson became involved in revolutionary activity. ($600 in current dollar terms) at gunpoint from a gas station – and sentenced to one year to life in prison. In 1961, he was convicted of armed robbery – for stealing $70 He spent time in the California Youth Authority Corrections facility in Paso Robles due to several juvenile convictions including armed robbery, assault, and burglary. Jackson was killed in prison by prison guards in 1971, during an escape attempt in which 3 prison guards and 2 inmates were killed.īorn in Chicago, Illinois, Jackson was the second son of Lester and Georgia Bea Jackson's five children. The book became a bestseller and earned Jackson personal fame. The same year, he published Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to an African-American audience. In 1970, he was charged, along with two other Soledad Brothers, with the murder of correctional officer John Vincent Mills in the aftermath of a prison fight. While serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $70 from a gas station in 1961, Jackson became involved in revolutionary activity and co-founded the prison gang Black Guerrilla Family.

George Lester Jackson (Septem– August 21, 1971) was an American author, activist and prisoner. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson Prison activist and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family

Blood in My Eye by George L. Jackson