Blood in My Eye

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Title: Blood in My Eye Author: George L. Jackson ISBN: 9780933121232 Publisher: Black Classic Press Published: 1996 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint Number of Pages: 196 Condition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: Blood In My Eye was completed only days before it's 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 solidary confinement. In prison he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and political theoretician who defined himself as a revolutionary. Show more