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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Arm the Spirit: A Woman's Journey Underground and Back — Diana Block (2009)
Memoir by Diana Block — a longtime PFOC member and one of the four women (with Donna Willmott, Claude Marks, and Robert McBride) who lived underground in the 1980s after being named as material witnesses in the 1986 Chicago grand jury investigating the FALN-PRO/PFOC alleged conspiracy to free Oscar López Rivera. The most detailed first-person account of PFOC...
The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1906–1926)
The 1955 autobiography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn covering her early life and her organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World from the Spokane free-speech fights of 1909 through the Lawrence and Paterson textile strikes, the Joe Hill defense, the Tom Mooney case, the Sacco-Vanzetti campaign, the WWI Espionage Act prisoner defense, and the founding of...