George

 Jackson  Bibliography  
 
Primary  
Writings  
Blood  in  My  Eye.  Baltimore:  Black  Classic  Press,  1990.  Available  at    
http://www.scribd.com/doc/64175197/Blood-­‐in-­‐My-­‐Eye-­‐by-­‐George-­‐
Jackson  (23  September  2011.  
 
Soledad  Brother:  The  Prison  Letters  of  George  Jackson.  New  York:  Bantam,    
1970.  Available  at  http://www.scribd.com/doc/23910473/Soledad-­‐Brother
  The-­‐Prison-­‐Letters-­‐of-­‐George-­‐Jackson  (23  September  2011).  
 
“Toward  the  United  Front.”  In  If  They  Come  in  the  Morning:  Voices  of  Resistance.    
Edited  by  Angela  Y.  Davis  and  Bettina  Aptheker.  New  York:  The  Third  Press,  
1971.  Reprinted  in  Imprisoned  Intellectuals:  America’s  Political  Prisoners  
Write  on  Life,  Liberation,  and  Rebellion.  Edited  by  Joy  James.  Lanham,  MD:  
Rowman  &  Littlefield,  2003.  Available  at  
https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/13202  (23  September  
2011).  
 
Interviews  
“A  Talk  with  George  Jackson.”  Interview  with  Jessica  Mitford.  New  York  Times,  13    
June  1971,  Sec.  7,  30.  
 
“An  Interview  with  George  Jackson.”  Interview  by  Karen  Wald.  May  16,  June  29,    
1971.  Reprinted  in  The  New  Abolitionists:  (Neo)Slave  Narratives  and  
Contemporary  Prison  Writings.  Edited  by  Joy  James,  227-­‐34.  Albany:  State  
University  of  New  York  Press,  2005.  Available  at  
http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/jacksoninterview.html  (20  
September  2011).  
 
 
Secondary  
“3  Guards,  4  Convicts  Killed  as  San  Quentin  Break  Fails.”  Boston  Globe,  22  
August  1971,  1.  
 
“3  Guards,  3  Prisoners,  Soledad  Brother  Slain.”  Atlanta  Constitution,  22  August  1971,    
1.  
 
Armstrong,  Gregory.  “The  Dragon  has  Come.”  New  York:  Harper  &  Row,  1974.  
 
“The  Assassination  of  George  Jackson:  An  Interview  with  Colonel  Nyati  Bolt.”  Angola    
3  News.  Available  at  
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgErR9WGCCk&feature=related  (23  
September  2011).  
 
Berger,  Dan.  “’We  are  Revolutionaries’:  Visibility,  Protest,  and  Racial  Formation  in    
1970s  Prison  Radicalism.”  Dissertation.  Philadelphia:  University  of  
Pennsylvania,  2010.  Available  at  
http://www.scribd.com/doc/57610392/4/CHAPTER-­‐2-­‐George-­‐Jackson-­‐
and-­‐the-­‐Black-­‐Condition-­‐Made-­‐Visible  (23  September  2011).  
 
Bernard,  Sheila  Curran,  dir.  Eyes  on  the  Prize  II:  A  Nation  of  Law?  PBS  Home  Video,    
1990.  Videocassette.  
 
Bernstein,  Richard.  “Tragedy  of  a  Revolutionary  Enigma.”  New  York  Times,  2    
September  1996.  Available  at  
http://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/02/books/tragedy-­‐of-­‐a-­‐revolutionary-­‐
enigma.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm  (23  September  2011).  
 
The  Black  Panther  Intercommunal  News  Service.  “Revolutionary  Memorial  Service    
for  George  Jackson,  Field  Marshal,  Black  Panther  Party.”  The  Black  Panther,  
Vol.  7,  No.  2,  4  September  1971.    
 
Boyers,  Jill  Witherspoon.  “George  Jackson.”  In  Adam  of  Ife:  Black  Women  in  Praise  of    
Black  Men:  Poems.  Edited  by  Naomi  Long  Madgett,  136-­‐37.  Detroit:  Lotus  
Press,  1993.  
 
Cummins,  Eric.  The  Rise  and  Fall  of  California’s  Radical  Prison  Movement.  Stanford,    
CA:  Stanford  University  Press,  1994.  
 
Durden-­‐Smith,  Jo.  Who  Killed  George  Jackson?  New  York:  Knopf,  1976.  
 
George  Jackson:  40  Year  Commemoration.  Edited  by  Oriana  Bolden.  Oakland,  CA:    
Freedom  Archives,  2011.    Available  at  http://vimeo.com/27870164  (23    
September  2011).  
 
“George  Jackson  Funeral.”  Black  Panther  Party,  28  August  1971.  Available  at    
https://diva.sfsu.edu/browse/tags/george+jackson  (23  September  2011).  
 
“George  Jackson:  One-­‐Third  of  His  Life  in  Prison.”  Washington  Post,  22  August  1971,    
A3.  
 
“George  Jackson  was  New  Breed  of  Convict.”  Chicago  Tribune,  22  August  1971,  2.  
 
Goodman,  Amy,  narr.  “Black  Panther  George  Jackson.”  Democracy  Now!  21  August    
1996.  Available  at  
http://www.democracynow.org/1996/8/21/black_panther_george_jackson  
(23  September  2011).  
 
Henderson,  Earl  Anthony.  “Shadow  of  a  Clue.”  In  Liberation,  Imagination,  and  the    
 Black  Panther  Party.  Edited  by  Kathleen  Cleaver  and  George  Katsiaficas,  197-­‐
207.  New  York:  Routledge,  2001.  
 
“Lawyer  and  Political  Activist  Stephen  Bingham  on  the  Assassination  of  George    
Jackson.”  Socialist  Worker,  3  March  2006.  Available  at  
http://socialistworker.org/2006-­‐1/578/578_04_GeorgeJackson.shtml  (23  
September  2011).  
 
Leapman,  Michael.  “Leader  of  Soledad  Brothers  Shot  Dead  ‘in  Prison  Escape.”    
London  Times,  23  August  1971,  A1.  
 
Lewis,  Melvin  E.  “Once  I  Was  a  Panther.”  In  The  Black  Panther  Party  [Reconsidered].    
Edited  by  Charles  E.  Jones,  109-­‐14.  Baltimore:  Black  Classic  Press,  1998.  
 
Liberatore,  Paul.  The  Road  to  Hell:  The  True  Story  of  George  Jackson,  Stephen    
Bingham,  and  the  San  Quentin  Massacre.  New  York:  Atlantic  Monthly  Press,  
1996.  
 
Mann,  Eric.  Comrade  George:  An  Investigation  in  the  Life,  Political  Thought  and    
Assassination  of  George  Jackson.  New  York:  Harper  &  Row,  1974.  
 
“Marin County Courtroom Shootout.” Eyewitness News Report by Ben Williams.
CBS5 KPIX-TV, 7 August 1970. Available at
https://diva.sfsu.edu/bundles/190039 (23 September 2011).
 
Prisons  on  Fire:  George  Jackson,  Attica  &  Black  Liberation.  Produced  by  Anita  
Johnson  and  Claude  Marks.  Freedom  Archives.  Oakland,  CA:  AK  Press,  2002.  
CD.  Audio  segments  available  at  
http://www.freedomarchives.org/struggle_inside_Aug.html  (23  September  
2011).  
 
“San  Quentin  Escape  Bid!  3  Guards,  3  Convicts  Die.”  Chicago  Tribune,  22  August    
1971,  1.  
 
Rodney,  Walter.  “George  Jackson:  Black  Revolutionary.”  Available  at    
http://historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/rodneyjackson.html  (20  September  
2011).  
 
Shakur  Sanyika.  “Flowing  in  File:  The  George  Jackson  Phenomenon.”  Wazo  Weusi    
(Think  Black):  A  Journal  of  Black  Thought  2,  no.  2  (1995).  Available  at  
http://www.peopleofcolororganize.com/analysis/opinion/flowing-­‐file-­‐
george-­‐jackson-­‐phenomenon/  (23  September  2011).  
 
Singh,  Nikhil  Pal.  “The  Black  Panthers  and  the  ‘Underdeveloped  Country’  of  the  Left.”    
In  The  Black  Panther  Party  [Reconsidered].  Edited  by  Charles  E.  Jones,  57-­‐105.  
Baltimore:  Black  Classic  Press,  1998.  
  
“Soledad  Brother  Jackson,  5  Others  Slain  in  San  Quentin  Escape  Attempt.”    
Washington  Post,  22  August  1971,  A1+.  
 
Soledad  Brothers:  George  Jackson,  1941-­1971,  John  Cluchette,  1943-­,  Fleeta  Drumgo,    
1945-­.  San  Francisco:  Soledad  Brothers  Legal  Defense  Committee.  1971.  
 
Styles,  Samm,  dir.  Black  August.  Warner  Home  Video,  2008.  
 
Tourè,  Askia  M.  A  Song  in  Blood  and  Tears:  A  People’s  Poem.  San  Francisco:  Marcus    
Books,  1972.  
 
Umoja,  Akinyele  Omowale.  “Repression  Breeds  Resistance:  The  Black  Liberation    
Army  and  the  Radical  Legacy  of  the  Black  Panther  Party.”  In  Liberation,  
Imagination,  and  the  Black  Panther  Party.  Edited  by  Kathleen  Cleaver  and  
George  Katsiaficas,  3-­‐19.  New  York:  Routledge,  2001.  
 
Yee,  Min  S.  The  Melancholy  History  of  Soledad  Prison;  In  Which  a  Utopian  Scheme    
Turns  Bedlam.  Harper’s  Magazine  Press,  1973.