George Jackson
George Jackson was arrested in 1957 for stealing $70 from a gas station and was sentenced to 1 year to life. Jackson ended up being incarcerated for 14 years until he was murdered by prison guards inside San Quentin Prison in 1971. During his 14 years of imprisonment, Jackson became of the seminal figures and thinkers of Black Power and the Black Liberation Movement.
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![Black August - Letters from George Jackson](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
reading of letter from George Jackson to his mother in 1966; Aug 1970 letter; responses to assassination of George Jackson, news report on circumstances surrounding his death
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