num_pages: 368
description: A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life. Jackson's letters make palpable the intense feelings of anger and rebellion that filled black men in America's prisons in the 1960s. But even removed from the social and political firestorms of the 1960s, Jackson's story still resonates for its portrait of a man taking a stand even while locked down.
language: English
title: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
titlecomplete: Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson
genres: Theory, Biography, Politics, Social Justice, Memoir, Nonfiction, Autobiography, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 3576
publisher: Lawrence Hill Books