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...March of 1957, Jackson was arrested in the act of robbing a furniture store, and, according to police, was shot attempting to evade capture. Jackson records the story differently in Soledad Brother...
...discover resulted in near-disasters, as when, in the interests of science, he dropped a book of flaming matches into a fifty-gallon drum of oil. The holding action of his sister, Delora, was the only thing that kept Jackson from being blinded from the ensuing explosion. In Soledad Brother, Jackson relates another incident that resulted from his unbridled desire to know. "Seeing the white boys up close in kindergarten was a traumatic event. I must have seen some before in magazines or books but never in the flesh. I approached one, felt his hair, scratched at his cheek...
...severely undernoticed as to make their existence a questionable issue to many. Yet many and perhaps, most black families have had a "Papa" Davis in them, and there are very few black people who after consideration can claim not to have known one. Jackson's description of "Papa" in Soledad Brother may be slightly inflated, yet any exaggeration is simply indicative of the powerful influence the "Papa"'s of the black world have...
That description appears in the autobiography Jackson wrote at the request of the editor of Soledad Brother. Perhaps an even more meaningful evaluation of the influence Papa had on him is given in a letter Jackson wrote to his mother after Papa had died alone and broke during George Jackson's fifth year at San Quentin...
...Soledad Brother, Jackson does not often refer to his Harrisburg experiences or his childhood relationship with his grandfather, summoning them as one does things very fragile and rare only at times of greatest stress. They seem to have constituted the last line of his defense of his own humanity during his ten year struggle to escape death on the installment plan in the penitentaries of California...