![]() The book became a bestseller and earned Jackson personal fame. ![]() The same year, he published Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson, a combination of autobiography and manifesto addressed to an African-American audience. In 1970, he was charged, along with two other Soledad Brothers, with the murder of correctional officer John Vincent Mills in the aftermath of a prison fight. While serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $70 from a gas station in 1961, Jackson became involved in revolutionary activity and co-founded the prison gang Black Guerrilla Family. George Lester Jackson (Septem– August 21, 1971) was an American author, activist and prisoner. Soledad Brother: The Prison Letters of George Jackson ![]() Prison activist and co-founder of the Black Guerrilla Family ![]()
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