WORLD WIDE AFRICA THE VOICE OF THE PAN AFRICAN MOVEMENT

George Jackson, is living the life of pain and slavery. Locked in a prison cell with no way out he has been locked up now for 4 years. With many trips to the parole board, and as many rejections. Here is one of those letters, to his mother. 

“December 22.1968

 Dear Mother, 

    I probably won’t leave here until next month. They are sending me to the board here. It meets the thirtieth and thirty-first of December and the third of January. 

I’m doing all right, and have some very efficient earplugs to help me preserve my sanity.  Have you any theories why blacks talk so much and so loud?  A Chinaman told me once that blacks were the oldest and finest people on earth “but one thing wrong, talkie-talkie-talkie……..

Wish the best for you, the best of everything this year.  May be in a position to help work something out before this one’s gone.”

George

"In January 1969, Jackson and Nolen were transferred from San Quentin to Soledad prison.  On January 13, 1970, Nolen and two other black inmates were shot to death by guard Opie G. Miller during a yard riot with members of the Aryan Brotherhood. Following the death of Nolen, Jackson became increasingly confrontational with corrections officials and spoke often about the need to protect fellow inmates and take revenge on guards for Nolen’s death in what Jackson referred to as “selective retaliatory violence.”