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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![George Jackson Communiqués](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Call Number: PM 013Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsProducers: Claude MarksProgram: Real Dragon/NIMPT 1975Collection: George Jackson
Reading by Claude Marks and Lincoln Bergman of communiqués re armed actions in retaliation for George Jackson assassination; rally in Willard Park, reporter reads statement from Herman Bell for Unity.
![George Jackson Interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
A documentary on the 6th anniversary of George Jackson's murder and the continuing struggle against the American prison system. Includes recordings of Jackson speaking from prison, recitation of Jackson's writings, words in memory of Jackson by Herman Bell and others, and a communiqué from the Weather Underground in response to Jackson's Murder.
Short interview with George Jackson in March 1971. Jackson speaks on the conditions inside prisons, the relationship between the oppressor and the oppressed, the Prison Movement's relationship to and communication with liberation movements on the outside, the functioning of captured revolutionary cadres inside prisons, guerilla war, politicization of prison population, and Third World liberation struggles, with a chillingly prophetic analysis of the fate of Allende in Chile.
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