Blood in My Eye
by George L. Jackson
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Published in 1972, “Blood In My Eye” is a collection of writings by George Jackson, a political prisoner and a Black freedom fighter. He finished the writings shortly before prison guards murdered him in August 1971. George had been convicted over a decade prior at age 18 — taking $70 from a gas station resulted in a conviction with an indeterminate sentence - one year to life.
Blood in My Eye considers more broadly questions of armed struggle, communism, and Black revolutionary thought, or put simply, “it is a book about taking the revolution that George worked and died for inside prison out into society at large.”
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Blood in My Eye
December 19, 1996, Black Classic Press
Paperback
in English
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Blood in my eye
1972, Cape, Vintage/Ebury (A Division of Random House Group)
in English
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DEVANT MES YEUX LA MORT
Aug 16, 1972, Gallimard, GALLIMARD
paperback
in French
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Con il sangue agli occhi. Lettere e scritti dal carcere
Publish date unknown, Agenzia X
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"We must accept the eventuality of bringing the U.S.A. to its knees; accept the closing off of critical sections of the city with barbed wire, armored pig carriers crisscrossing the streets, soldiers everywhere, tommy guns pointed at stomach level, smoke curling black against the daylight sky, the smell of cordite, house-to-house searches, doors being kicked in, the commonness of death."
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