![]() ![]() 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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