Welcome to the NPPC Archive. This Archive is a searchable index of the National Political Prisoner Coalition’s records: prisoner profiles, case files, movement periodicals, court documents, and oral histories. It collects, in one place, the materials that document the history of U.S. political imprisonment from the late nineteenth century to the present.
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A Visit to Communist Party Headquarters, Chicago — Oct. 14, 1919
A U.S. Bureau of Investigation surveillance report by Special Agent A.H. Loula describing his October 14, 1919 visit to the national headquarters of the Communist Party of America, then newly founded, at the Smolny Institute, 1221 Blue Island Avenue, Chicago. Loula names the party's leaders — Louis Fraina, Alexander Stoklitsky, Isaac Hourwich, Isaac Ferguson...
War-Time Prosecutions and Mob Violence: Involving the Rights of Free Speech, Free Press and Peaceful Assemblage (April 1, 1917 – March 1, 1919)
A compilation published by the National Civil Liberties Bureau (the direct predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union, founded 1920) indexing cases of prosecution and mob violence directed against the rights of free speech, free press, and peaceful assembly in the United States from April 1, 1917 to March 1, 1919 — the World War I and immediate post-w...