THE SOLEDAD BROTHERS
The Soledad Brothers were three African-American inmates charged with the murder of a white prison guard, John Vincent Mills, at California’s Soledad Prison on January 16, 1970. George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette were said to have murdered Mills in retaliation for the shooting deaths of three black prisoners during a prison fight in the exercise yard three days prior by another guard, Opie G. Miller. (More from Wikipedia)
Soledad Brothers was formed in 1998 in Maumee, Ohio. The name is taken from a trio of former members of the Black Panther Party who became known as the Soledad Brothers; they had been convicted of killing a white prison guard in Soledad Prison in California in January 1970. Efforts by a number of celebrities eventually resulted in acquittal during a new trial in March 1972, though George Jackson had previously been killed during a prison uprising in 1971, and the other two are evidently still incarcerated.
(February 2015)
