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George Lester Jackson (September 23, 1941 – August 21, 1971) was an American author, revolutionary, and prisoner. While serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $70 at gunpoint from a gas station in 1961, Jackson became involved in the Black power movement and co-founded the prison gang Black Guerrilla Family.
The Soledad Brothers were three inmates charged with the murder of a prison guard, John Vincent Mills, at California's Soledad Prison on January 16, 1970. [1] George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette were alleged to have murdered Mills in retaliation for the shooting deaths of three black prisoners during a prison fight in the exercise yard three days prior by another guard, Opie G ...
Blood in My Eye is a book of political philosophy written by George Jackson, a co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family. Jackson finished writing the book only days before he was killed at San Quentin State Prison on 21 August 1971. The book was first published on 1 January 1972.
George Henry Jackson (March 12, 1945 – April 14, 2013) was an American blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll/rock and soul singer-songwriter. His prominence was as a prolific and skilled songwriter: he wrote or co-wrote many hit songs for other musicians, including "Down Home Blues", "One Bad Apple", "Old Time Rock and Roll" and "The Only Way Is Up".
"George Jackson" is a song by Bob Dylan, written in 1971, in tribute to the Black Panther leader George Jackson, who had been shot and killed by guards at San Quentin Prison during an attempted escape on August 21, 1971.
George Jackson (Irish politician) (1761–1805), Member of Parliament for Mayo 1801–1802 Sir George Duckett, 1st Baronet (1725–1822), born George Jackson, British politician and MP George Jackson (Virginia politician) (1757–1831), U.S. Representative from Virginia
The Black Guerrilla Family (BGF, also known as the Black Gorilla Family, [6] [7] the Black Family, [8] the Black Vanguard, [9] and Jamaa [8]) is an African American black power prison gang, street gang, and political organization founded in 1966 by George Jackson, George "Big Jake" Lewis, and W.L. Nolen while they were incarcerated at San Quentin State Prison in Marin County, California.
W.L. Nolen (December 13, 1943 – January 13, 1970) [1] was an American convict who co-founded the Black Guerrilla Family in San Quentin State Prison in 1966 along with George Jackson. [2] Nolen is considered the mentor of Jackson and is often credited with introducing Jackson to radical left-wing politics. [3]