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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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1990 Tribunal Fundraiser & Registration Letter

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateSeptember 15, 1990 AuthorsDaniel Berrigan; Margaret Randall; Rafael Cancel Miranda PublishersSpecial International Tribunal Organizing Committee

September 15, 1990 registration packet and fundraising appeal for the Special International Tribunal on Human Rights Violations of Political Prisoners and POWs in U.S. Prisons, held December 7-10, 1990 at Hunter College, New York City. Signatories include Daniel Berrigan, Margaret Randall, and Rafael Cancel Miranda. Companion piece to the Dec 7 1990 Chicano...

25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance — Document No. 1 (1978)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersNational Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Document submitted on behalf of the four imprisoned Puerto Rican Nationalists (Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Irvin Flores, Andres Figueroa Cordero) laying out the factual and legal basis for their release after 25 years.

25 Years of Struggle, 25 Years of Resistance — Document No. 2 (Lolita Lebron, 1978)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1978 AuthorsLolita Lebron PublishersNational Committee to Free the Four Puerto Rican Prisoners of War

Memorandum from imprisoned Puerto Rican Nationalist Lolita Lebron on Puerto Rico and the Nationalist prisoners taken after the November 1, 1954 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

6th Anniversary of the Assassination of George Jackson — San Quentin Demonstration

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1977 AuthorsAugust 21 Coalition PublishersAugust 21 Coalition

August 21 Coalition demonstration flyer commemorating the 6th anniversary of George Jackson's August 21, 1971 killing by San Quentin guards. Includes a fact sheet on white-supremacist attacks against Black prisoners in the California system.

A Living Tomb — The Nation on the Lexington Women's Control Unit (1988)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMarch 26, 1988 AuthorsNational Campaign to Abolish the Lexington Women's Control Unit PublishersThe Nation (reprint)

March 26, 1988 reprint of The Nation's investigative report on the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Lexington High Security Unit, the basement control unit at FCI Lexington, Kentucky used to hold women political prisoners Susan Rosenberg, Alejandrina Torres, and Silvia Baraldini under sensory-deprivation conditions. Distributed by the National Campaign to Abolish...

About the New York Three

CollectionPolitical Prisoners AuthorsNY3 Freedom Campaign West Coast Committee PublishersNY3 Freedom Campaign West Coast Committee

Informational pamphlet from the New York Three Freedom Campaign West Coast Committee on the case of Black Panther political prisoners Herman Bell, Anthony 'Jalil' Bottom, and Albert 'Nuh' Washington — convicted of the 1971 deaths of NYPD officers Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini.

Acto Politico — Juan Antonio Corretjer (April 1983)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateApril 2, 1983 PublishersFree PR POW campaign

April 1983 program for a cultural and political event in support of Puerto Rican POWs featuring Juan Antonio Corretjer.

Ain't Nothing Changed!!! — Ruchell Magee (1975)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1975 AuthorsRuchell Cinque Magee PublishersEugene Coalition / Liberation Support Movement

1975 pamphlet by Ruchell Cinque Magee — sole surviving defendant of the August 7, 1970 Marin County courthouse incident — examining the U.S. court system and the conspiracy surrounding his case. Distributed by the Eugene Coalition and the Liberation Support Movement.

Alabama's Atticas — Inmates for Action Statement (Atmore-Holman)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1974 AuthorsInmates for Action; Atmore-Holman Brothers Defense Committee PublishersAtmore-Holman Brothers Defense Committee

Inmates for Action / Atmore-Holman Brothers Defense Committee statement critiquing the Alabama prison system and the state repression that followed the 1974 Atmore-Holman prison rebellions and the killing of guards at the Atmore (G.K. Fountain) facility. A companion document to the Pontiac Brothers and Attica Brothers organizing of the same period.

Allegations of Ill-Treatment in Marion Prison, Illinois (Amnesty International, May 1987)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMay 1, 1987 PublishersAmnesty International

May 1987 Amnesty International report documenting allegations of guard mistreatment of prisoners at USP Marion (the federal Control Unit), with correspondence chain regarding requests for an official investigation.

Assata Bulletin (February 21, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateFebruary 21, 1977 PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Defense-committee bulletin updating supporters on trial proceedings during Assata Shakur's 1977 New Jersey trial.

Assata Bulletin (March 7, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMarch 7, 1977 PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Defense-committee bulletin covering Black solidarity demonstrations and legal updates during the Assata Shakur trial.

Assata Bulletin (May 2, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMay 2, 1977 AuthorsAssata Shakur PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Defense-committee bulletin carrying a statement from Assata Shakur to her supporters during her 1977 New Jersey trial.

Assata Shakur — The Interview (May 2003)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateMay 2, 2003 AuthorsAssata Shakur PublishersFreedom Archives

2003 interview with Assata Shakur conducted while she lived in political exile in Cuba.

Assata-Sundiata Bulletin (August 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateAugust 1, 1977 PublishersAssata Shakur Defense Committee

Joint defense-committee bulletin covering Assata Shakur's New Jersey trial and Sundiata Acoli's confinement conditions.

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 August Resistance — Letter from Michael 'Shakari' Jackson

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 2006 AuthorsMichael 'Shakari' Jackson PublishersFreedom Archives

Thirteen-page letter combining typed and handwritten content on the murder of Huey Newton, with prison documentation about confiscated Black August materials.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (December 1976)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateDecember 1, 1976 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

December 1976 issue of the Anarchist Black Cross's Black Flag magazine focused on false-imprisonment cases in Ireland and Scotland and on broader international prisoner-support work.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 4 No. 13, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

Coverage of the murder of Spanish anarchist Laureano Cerrado Santos and an obituary of Aaron Rogat; also articles on the Sex Pistols, punks, trade unions, and press hysteria.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 4 No. 14, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

Reports on the Murray Trials and the release of Ronan Stenson, plus an article on the Hull prisoners' demonstration.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 4 No. 15, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

Focuses on the execution of Siegfried Buback and reviews Spain's transition from dictatorship to democracy.

Black Flag — Organ of the Anarchist Black Cross (Vol. 5 No. 1, 1977)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersBlack Flag Group / Anarchist Black Cross

Conflicts in Germany between anarchists and German police; debate over the role of trade unions across Europe.