George Lester Jackson was an African-American left-wing activist, Marxist, author, a member of the Black Panther Party, and cofounder of the Black Guerrilla Family while incarcerated. Jackson achieved fame as one of the Soledad Brothers and was later shot to death by prison guards in San Quentin Prison during an escape attempt. Jean Genet was a prominent and controversial French novelist, playwright, poet, essayist, and political activist. His major works include the novels Querelle of Brest, The Thief's Journal, and Our Lady of the Flowers, and the plays The Balcony, The Blacks, The Maids and The Screens.Jonathan Jackson Jr. is the nephew of George Jackson, the author of Soledad Brother.
"The most important single volume from a black since The
Autobiography of Malcolm X ." --Julius Lester, The New York Times
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"The power of George Jackson's personal story remains painfully
relevant to our nation today, with its persisten racism, its
hellish prisons, its unjust judicial system, and the poles of
wealth and poverty that are at the root of all that. I hope the
younger generation, black and white, will read Soledad Brother ."
--Howard Zinn, author, A People's History of the United States
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