Blood in My Eye Binding:Paperback Maya was a preacher

Maya was a preacher

Part I presents an overview of the early environmental justice movement and highlights key leadership roles assumed by women activists

in the anthology’s concluding sections

Vievee Francis

protecting and nurturing where love is scarce-pulls itself up to face another day

Blood in My Eye Binding:Paperback Maya was a preacherBlood In My Eye was completed only days before it's author was killed. George Jackson died on August 21, 1971 at the hands of San Quentin prison guards during an alleged escape attempt. At eighteen, George Jackson was convicted of stealing seventy dollars from a gas station and was sentenced from one year to life. He was to spent the rest of his life eleven years in the California prison system, seven in solidary confinement. In prison he read widely