"When Soledad Brother was first published, many people sensed in George Jackson the successor to Malcolm X ... It showed Jackson, like Malcolm, developing a theory and eloquently expressing a vision of the path to African American freedom through the unity of the peoples oppressed by imperialism. This made the book extremely dangerous - and therefore, as the author must have known (see his June 4, 1970 letter to Angela Davis), potentially his own death warrant. Though George Jackson was murdered ten months after the book was published, Soledad Brother remains a menace the powers that killed him." - H. Bruce Franklin, author of Prison Literature in America.