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...described in his remarkable book, Soledad Brother, a collection of his prison letters between 1964 and 1970 with an autobiography, the annual shift between Chicago and Harrisburg represented a change from relative captivity to relative freedom. In Chicago, Jackson had to contend first and always with the efforts of his mother and then also with those of the teachers and administrators of St. Malachy to confine and bend him to their wills. As he was later to view them, his mother's efforts began before Jackson was born. "As testimony of her love, and her fear for the fate...
...offered circuses. In many cities, ghetto residents were regaled with a series of music and ethnic festivals, theater presentations and art shows. "We didn't have much money," says Phil Jourdan, an aide to the mayor of Detroit, "but we got the best out of the least expenditure." Soledad Brother George Jackson was killed during the sixth anniversary of Los Angeles' Watts riot. In the past, such an incident might have sparked an explosion, but Watts stayed quiet; that weekend, many of its residents were attending a festival of parades, games and displays...
...violence inside the prison soon spread to a San Francisco courtroom. Jackson and two other inmates charged with the 1970 murder of a Soledad prison guard were scheduled for pretrial hearings. The remaining "Soledad brothers," as they are known, Fleeta Drumbo and John Clutchette, stripped off their shirts in court in an attempt to expose bruises from beatings that they said they had received after the uprising. Two days later, in a tense, spectator-filled courtroom newly equipped with a bulletproof barrier between spectators and the bench, another hearing took place. When Judge Carl Allen repeatedly denied defense motions...
FROM Berkeley to Bedford-Stuyvesant, scrawls of aerosol paint on ghetto walls demand: FREE ANGELA DAVIS. FREE THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS. FREE ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS. The phrase "political prisoner" is so laminated into the radical mind that, like "genocide" or "fascist pig," it has become part of an unconscious ritual. George Jackson's death last week at San Quentin raised some fundamental and difficult questions about the meaning of the term and to whom it applies...
...long stretch-more than seven years of it in solitary confinement-with an extraordinary self-education in languages, economics, history and philosophy. He concentrated increasingly on Marxist theory and did nothing to conceal his revolutionary politics, which called for the destruction of the capitalist system. His published prison letters, Soledad Brother, incandescent and often eloquent in their hatred, and his moving compassion for his people made him that contemporary incongruity-a literary celebrity in stir...