George Jackson, Angela Davis Prison Interviews
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- George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 - August 21, 1971) was an American author and activist. While serving an indeterminate sentence for the alleged armed robbery of a gas station in 1961, Jackson became involved in revolutionary activity and co-founded the community organization Black Guerrilla Family.
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. 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. The book became a bestseller and earned Jackson personal fame.
Jackson was murdered during an alleged attempted prison escape in 1971. Jackson and other prisoners took hostages during the attempt and five hostages were found dead in Jackson's cell after the incident.
***Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson www.amazon.com...
George L. Jackson: September 23, 1941 - August 21, 1971
In 1960, at the age of eighteen, George Jackson was accused of stealing $70 from a gas station in Los Angeles. Though there was evidence of his innocence, his court-appointed lawyer maintained that because Jackson had a record (two previous instances of petty crime), he should plead guilty in exchange for a light sentence in the county jail. He did, and received an indeterminate sentence of one year to life. Jackson spent the next ten years in Soledad Prison, seven and a half of them in solitary confinement. Instead of succumbing to the dehumanization of prison existence, he transformed himself into the leading theoretician of the prison movement and a brilliant writer. Soledad Brother, which contains the letters that he wrote from 1964 to 1970, is his testament.
In his twenty-eighth year, Jackson and two other black inmates - Fleeta Drumgo and John Cluchette - were falsely accused of murdering a white prison guard. The guard was beaten to death on January 16, 1969, a few days after another white guard shot and killed three black inmates by firing from a tower into the courtyard. The accused men were brought in chains and shackles to two secret hearings in Salinas County. A third hearing was about to take place when John Cluchette managed to smuggle a note to his mother: "Help, I'm in trouble." With the aid of a state senator, his mother contacted a lawyer, and so commenced one of the most extensive legal defenses in U.S. history. According to their attorneys, Jackson, Drumgo, and Clutchette were charged with murder not because there was any substantial evidence of their guilt, but because they had been previously identified as black militants by the prison authorities. If convicted, they would face a mandatory death penalty under the California penal code. Within weeks, the case of the Soledad Brothers emerged as a political cause célèbre for all sorts of people demanding change at a time when every American institution was shaken by Black rebellions in more than one hundred cities and the mass movement against the Vietnam War.
August 7, 1970, just a few days after George Jackson was transferred to San Quentin, the case was catapulted to the forefront of national news when his brother, Jonathan, a seventeen-year-old high school student in Pasadena, staged a raid on the Marin County courthouse with a satchelful of handguns, an assault rifle, and a shotgun hidden under his coat. Educated into a political revolutionary by George, Jonathan invaded the court during a hearing for three black San Quentin inmates, not including his brother, and handed them weapons. As he left with the inmates and five hostages, including the judge, Jonathan demanded that the Soledad Brothers be released within thirty minutes. In the shootout that ensued, Jonathan was gunned down. Of Jonathan, George wrote, "He was free for a while. I guess that's more than most of us can expect."
Soledad Brother, which is dedicated to Jonathan Jackson, was released to critical acclaim in France and the United States, with an introduction by the renowned French dramatist Jean Genet, in the fall of 1970. Less than a year later and just two days before the opening of his trial, George Jackson was shot to death by a tower guard inside San Quentin Prison in a purported escape attempt. "No Black person," wrote James Baldwin, "will ever believe that George Jackson died the way they tell us he did."
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*** An Open Letter to My Sister, Miss Angela Davis
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ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE ✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾✊🏾
Hermon Johnson blammed larry justice and earl gibson fir killing my grandfather. Because he was six months to the house and just got stabbed 2 days before the Soledad brothers killed my grandfather for the deaths of nolan and the other 2 brother's at solidad on January 13 1970 they didn't want hermon or the keys my grandfather what's Target and how to sell for high profile inmates at the time but for some online reason was it being used
And why doesn't anybody want to know the whole story what happened
@@Tinashorts925 Not tryna seem insensitive but I'm confused as to what you're conveying here. What exactly are you saying?
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Revolutionary!
Angela was so beautiful to me I love the Afro her intelligence and strength I wish we had more sisters like her these days and stronger men that are just as Intelligent and stand for something. Stand together and protect each other and genuinely care even if you are a stranger to them
My grandmother told me information about the events of aug 21 im looking foursome one that would like to inow about it
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My hero died in prison George Jackson
And he deserved it.
Your "hero" robbed a gas station, committed high treason and sedition by colluding with foreign communists, committed acts of terrorism and killed innocent prison guards who posed no threat to him...the day of his death should be made a public holiday in America.
@@monicahoo8514 I think I caught a racist lol. Let not talk about your hero’s bombing churches and hanging so called negros because your jealous that there penis was bigger than y’all and the white woman loved that. That’s your hero’s one stole because of the poverty and the other killed and is still killing because he is just wicked. He has it all but still love to see blood. Get the hell out of here.
Oh so they shove martin luther down your throats in school. I never heard of any of these guys growing up. Martin this and Martin that
We need the Black Guerilla Family more than ever. Where are they at?
We need the Black Guerilla Family more than ever. Where are they at?
Holding it down in prisons and places that they shouldn't be but the Fam move different and it's basically like the mob so yo probably won't hear nothin
@@SeeBeyond_870 How you join BGF these days? What cities are they in besides Baltimore?
I fux wit The Bay Area
@@WizardsPath-if5oqyou have to join in prison. But if not then someone can become what you call "sympathizer" if they are not an actual member
@@orlandojohnson-gu4kq Sympathizers can join on the streets? What they do?
The revolution continues.....Power to the People!!
True revolutionaries ✊✊✊
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Cruel Devils. Long Live Geroge Jackson!
My grandfather was leo davis he was guarding hermon johnson i have information from the star witness my grandmother about the events of aug 21 1971 reply back
You serious???
“Professional revolutionaries”
Sad reality show nuff. .ya know??
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Can you tell me the names of Mexican men also , just for being brown
There’s is a documentary called prisons on fire that showcases the Attica rebellion n the Mexican brothers speak
What you tryna find out? La Eme or Norteñios BBs it depends on what you mean?
Reading George Jackson while in Prison changed me, seeing his letters to his family, brung something personal to me. Outside of that, he inspired me to be revolutionary with his witty words and bravery. This same charisma, i now bring to Christ.
What? How did you go from George Jackson to Christ? Christianity is a tool of Capitalism and Colonialism. All against everything he stood for.
Angela stated that its the educational system that’s responsible for why so many of us are incarcerated. I disagree with that But recognize that it does play a part.
well education was purposely withheld from black people for hundreds of years, but your right its a very complex amount of oppressive systems that have been at work to keep caste systems alive.
@@TheIncarceratedNation
Public education has only gotten worse along with all of these institutions that work against us.
No matter what education was a big reason bc it had segregation and had white ppl treated way better than colored so what that being said they caused colored to form organization on their same school properties like the crips and so on and so forth to rise up and protect there neighborhoods bc from the beginning slave patrol and most whites where against us but somewhere down the line they put crack dope and guns in the urban neighborhoods throughout the Unites States and there you have it the falling of the REVOLUTION. the ppl start rising up on them everybody including whites where about to unite they show that in the movie Judas and the black messiah ✊🏾💯
So you don't see any validity to school to prison pipeline? As someone who experienced both my teacher's failed me just as much as I failed myself and the similarities of the two are undeniable and recent years here in Magnolia Are they have the children walking holding their hands up like "doctors going into surgery" single file line... Imagine hearing this being told to some children. However the lighting is similar the paint is similar some have razor wire and food trays look similar get recess in school yard call in jail and I actually finished my education in prison so they held an intimate connection from what I've seen We not talking about white teachers not helping me properly and my later rebellion that led to a life that led me to prison but if I felt motivated and like school had something to offer I wouldn't have been in the streets like I was but it some other factors that I don't have time for but mostly it's a subconscious conditioning or institutionalized state you get into from school. Most out here are compliant consumer debtor slave and school doesn't teach you what you really need to learn for life. Like to me consumer math is what you need before Algebra and the others should be learned by necessity if your occupation requires it. In my opinion I know a few ways to improve things but y'all got it for now
She’s a supporter of the government now
I don’t see how she go from George Jackson and the struggle to marry a white dude that doesn’t have anything to do with the struggle
Moja hubaaa