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.
Records
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Sacco-Vanzetti
Documentary collection on the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti — Italian-American anarchist immigrants convicted of the 1920 South Braintree, Massachusetts payroll robbery and murders, tried in 1921 in what became the most internationally-publicized political-prisoner case of the early-20th-century United States. Despite a worldwide defense campa...
The Symbionese Liberation Army: Documents and Communiques (1974)
Collected communiques, taped statements, and historical documents of the Symbionese Liberation Army — the small Bay Area armed group founded in 1973 whose actions included the November 1973 killing of Oakland school superintendent Marcus Foster and the February 1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst. The collection includes the SLA's foundational political docum...