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Blood in my eye by george l jackson6/19/2023 ![]() A year later, he was murdered by the California Department of Corrections when he was shot and killed by prison guards. Jackson published his first book “Soledad Brother,” a collection of his prison letters, in 1970. Newton with building and leading the party’s prison chapter in San Quentin. After joining the Party, he was appointed Field Marshal and tasked by Huey P. He would go on to spend the rest of his life behind bars, becoming politicized on the inside through his studies, and later joining the Black Panther Party. In 1960, at the age of eighteen, Jackson was accused of stealing $60, charged and sentenced to 1 year to life in prison. ![]() ![]() Jackson - Black Panther Party leader, communist revolutionary, freedom fighter, political prisoner and writer - on the 51st anniversary of his martyrdom, August 21st, 1971. ![]()
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