Split-screen image: (Left) Photo of George Jackson published on August 24, 1971, three days after Jackson was shot and killed by a prison guard at San Quentin Prison.

The George Jackson Brigade emerged again on May 12, 1977, with bombings of two branches of the old Rainier National Bank in Bellevue and Redmond — though one bomb failed to detonate.

[This short article, appraising George Jackson and establishing the links between his generation and that of people such as Du Bois and James himself, was written for Radical America and appeared in ...

Black August is a month-long commemoration following the deaths of George Jackson and Jonathan Jackson. George Jackson was sentenced to one year to life in prison after stealing $70 from a gas ...