num_pages: 217
description: Blood In My Eye was completed only days before its author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971, at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced from one year to life. He was to spent the rest of his life -- eleven years-- in the California prison system, seven in solitary confinement. In prison he read widely and transformed himself into an activist and political theoretician who defined himself as a revolutionary.
language: English
title: Blood in My Eye
titlecomplete: Blood in My Eye
genres: History, Biography, Memoir, Theory, African American, Social Justice, Race, Politics, Activism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 1839
publisher: Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)