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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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Found 15 records

BLA / Revolutionary Armed Task Force — New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day (August 21, 1982)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateAugust 21, 1982 PublishersBlack Liberation Army / Revolutionary Armed Task Force

BLA / Revolutionary Armed Task Force communique marking New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Day on August 21, 1982.

BLA Communique (July 16, 1983)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJuly 16, 1983 PublishersBlack Liberation Army

Black Liberation Army communique dated July 16, 1983.

BLA Communique No. 14

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersBlack Liberation Army

BLA Communique No. 14, part of the Black Liberation Army's series of underground political statements.

BLA Communiques (Nos. 1-5 and 12)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersBlack Liberation Army

Compiled set of Black Liberation Army communiques numbered 1 through 5 and 12.

Black Liberation Army Communique (November 5, 1981)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateNovember 5, 1981 PublishersBLA Coordinating Committee

BLA Coordinating Committee communique issued shortly after the October 20, 1981 Rockland County Brink's expropriation, including an essay on the Strategic Alliance of the Armed Military Forces of the Revolutionary Nationalist and Anti-Imperialist Movement.

Black Nation's Freedom Fighters JAILED

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersNew York 8 Defense Committee

Flyer about the New York 8 case with photos and information on non-collaboration with the grand jury, calling for support of Black liberation defendants facing fascist terrorism charges.

Break De Chains — National Committee for Defense of Chesimard & Squire (1973)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1973 PublishersNational Committee for the Defense of Jo Anne Chesimard and Clark Squire

Defense-committee pamphlet collecting messages and statements from imprisoned Black Liberation Army members, produced in support of Assata Shakur (Jo Anne Chesimard) and Clark Squire (later Sundiata Acoli).

Brinks Trial Testimony — Sundiata Acoli (1983)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1983 AuthorsSundiata Acoli

Trial transcript of Sundiata Acoli's testimony in the 1983 Brinks armored-truck expropriation case, situating the Revolutionary Armed Task Force action within the history of the Black Liberation Movement.

Jalil Abdul Muntaqim Biography

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsJalil Muntaqim PublishersNew York Three Freedom Campaign

Autobiographical statement from Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army member Jalil Muntaqim (Anthony Bottom), one of the New York 3.

Kuwasi Balagoon's Exercise Book

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsKuwasi Balagoon PublishersRESISTANCE

Short illustrated exercise book that Black Liberation Army member Kuwasi Balagoon wrote and drew while imprisoned.

Looking Back — BLA Unit 3 (1975)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1975 PublishersBlack Liberation Army

1975 BLA Unit 3 reflective essay on the trajectory of Black Liberation Army organizing.

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin — NAPO / BCAR Proposal

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsLorenzo Komboa Ervin PublishersFreedom Archives

Lorenzo Komboa Ervin's organizing proposal calling for revived Black Liberation Movement activism around the death penalty, judicial railroading, and police informants, concluding with a proposed Bill of Rights.

Open Letter to Jacqueline Foster (SLA / BLA)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersBlack Liberation Army / SLA-related

Open letter addressed to Mrs. Jacqueline Foster, surfacing in the BLA / Symbionese Liberation Army archival materials.

Open Letter to the white Left in the U.S. — BLA

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsDhoruba Moore; Frank Khali Abney PublishersBlack Liberation Army

Open letter from BLA members Dhoruba Moore and Frank Khali Abney criticizing U.S. white leftists for pursuing reformist politics that perpetuate systemic oppression.

Prisoners of War — The Case of the New York Three

CollectionPolitical Prisoners PublishersNew York 3 Freedom Campaign

Case pamphlet framing Herman Bell, Jalil Muntaqim, and Nuh Washington as prisoners of war from the Black Liberation struggle.