From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Rebecca Pierce was published by EI on December 15, 2015.
Jackson, a Black Panther and an author, was one of the Soledad Brothers, three African Americans charged with the murder of a white guard at Soledad Prison, California, in 1970. The incident occurred shortly after a marksman who had shot dead three Black men in the prison’s recreation yard was exonerated in a “justifiable homicide” ruling.
Less well-known is the fact that Jackson also turned to the Palestinian struggle for inspiration during this time, and that the Palestinian prisoner writings that influenced him would continue to have an impact in the US Black community for decades to come.
That encounter has now inspired a new exhibition in a Jerusalem museum that highlights the historic and continuing kinship between the Palestinian and Black American prisoners’ movements.
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