
George Jackson (activist)
George Lester Jackson was an American author, prisoner, and revolutionary. While serving an indeterminate sentence for stealing $71 at gunpoint from a gas station in 1960, Jackson became involved in the Black power movement and inspired the creation of a far-left prison gang, the Black Guerrilla Family.
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1941
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