James Baldwin and Britain

Interview with Penny Jackson, sister of George Jackson. Baldwin quoted at Soledad Brother’s rally

Source: Ink

Ink, May, 1971 number 1, pg. 12, ‘Felix Dennis Archive’

Interview with Penny Jackson, sister of George Jackson. Baldwin quoted at Soledad Brother’s rally: ‘What is happening in this century is for the first time – within the history of anyone living anyway – a certain group of people who’ve always being despised, who were born to be shoe shine boys, who were born to be political prisoners – in fact who were born to be political prisoners — in in fact who were born to used — have discovered, as it happens through time, what happened to them. And they’ve begun to understand that if they are going to liberate themselves they have to begin in first of all within themselves: no one is going to do it for them.’