30. The Soledad Brothers, Prison Rights Activists
The Soledad Brothers were not, in fact, brothers, but rather three black prison inmates wrongfully charged with the murder of a white prison guard in California’s Soledad Prison. George Jackson, the co-founder of the black Guerilla Family, was shot to death by a guard at San Quentin prison. Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette were acquitted by a San Francisco jury and were vocal about their belief that Jackson was murdered. A white prison guard who killed three Black inmates engaged in a fistfight during the same period was exonerated in a secret trial.
