Blood in my eye
Publication Information
Baltimore, MD : Black Classic Press, 1990.
Physical Description
xix, 197 pages ; 22 cm
Summary
"Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its 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 solitary confinement. In prison he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and political theoretician who defined himself as a revolutionary."--Goodreads.
Notes
Reprint. Originally published: New York : Random House, 1972.