Blood in My Eye by George Jackson

Blood in My Eye
by George Jackson

A Black Classic Press Book

Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author, George Lester Jackson, was killed.

At the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt George Jackson died on August 21, 1971.

Born in Chicago, Illinois, George Jackson, at age eighteen, was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station. Jackson was sentenced to 1-year to Life. He was to spend the following eleven years--the rest of his life--in the California Prison System--Seven of which would be spent in solitary confinement.

In prison he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and political theoretician who defined himself as a revolutionary and defined a revolution.