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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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Anarchism and the Black Revolution

CollectionMovement Reference AuthorsLorenzo Kom'boa Ervin Publishersmovement pamphlet / Pluto Press

Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin's foundational text linking anarchism with Black liberation, written and revised across the late 1970s and 1980s while Ervin was a Black Panther Party-aligned political prisoner in U.S. federal custody following his hijacking conviction. Originally circulated as a movement pamphlet and republished in expanded book form (most recently by...

August Spies' Autobiography (1887)

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1887 AuthorsAugust Spies PublishersNina Van Zandt Spies / 1887 prison edition

Autobiography of August Spies — German-American anarchist, labor organizer, editor of the Chicago Arbeiter-Zeitung, and one of the Haymarket Martyrs hanged by the State of Illinois on November 11, 1887 for the May 4, 1886 Haymarket Affair bombing. Spies wrote the autobiography in his cell at the Cook County jail in 1887 prior to his execution, alongside the...

Sacco-Vanzetti

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1927 AuthorsSacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee / contributors PublishersSacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee

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...