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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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COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ counterintelligence file targeting 'Black Nationalist - Hate Groups' under COINTELPRO. Master file documenting FBI's operations against the Black Panther Party, RAM, Republic of New Afrika, SCLC, SNCC, and individuals including Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, and Huey Newton.

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 08

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file Part 8, including memoranda authorizing Director-level disruption ops against Black Panther figures who became political prisoners (Geronimo Pratt, Huey Newton, Panther 21).

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 10

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

Continued FBI COINTELPRO Black Extremists file, mid-program operations. Documents FBI dirty-tricks campaigns referenced in later wrongful-conviction litigation for Geronimo Pratt and Dhoruba bin Wahad.

COINTELPRO New Left HQ — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI Headquarters file on the COINTELPRO program against the New Left. Surveillance/disruption file underlying federal cases against SDS, the Weather Underground, and the Chicago 8.

COINTELPRO Puerto Rican Groups — Part 1 of 11

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file on 'Groups Seeking Independence for Puerto Rico.' Surveillance file underlying prosecutions of Nationalist Party members and FALN/Macheteros prisoners including Oscar López Rivera.

COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Part 01 of 05

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file targeting the Socialist Workers Party. Documents ten years of warrantless surveillance the SWP successfully sued the FBI over (Socialist Workers v. Attorney General, 1986).

COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Part 05 (Final)

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

Final volume of the COINTELPRO-SWP HQ file. Closing memoranda on the SWP disruption program.

COINTELPRO White Hate Groups — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI COINTELPRO file on KKK and white-supremacist groups. Includes informant relationships with klansmen later prosecuted in the Viola Liuzzo and civil rights worker murders.

COINTELPRO: A Brief Overview

CollectionGovernment Repression DateNovember 8, 1989 AuthorsDhoruba Bin Wahad PublishersFreedom Archives

Short report deals with a background on COINTELPRO, its true purposes and objectives, and how COINTELPRO operations influenced future political and social opinions.

Calculating Torture: 2023 Count of People in Solitary

CollectionSolitary Watch Year2023 PublishersSolitary Watch

National census of people held in solitary confinement.

Caleb Powers — Appeal Circular (Washington, D.C., April 1906)

DateApril 1, 1906 PublishersCaleb Powers Defense Committee

Fundraising circular describing Kentucky Secretary of State Caleb Powers as 'the noted Kentucky political prisoner' in the Goebel assassination case.

Cannon on Haywood (Obituary, 1928)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1928 AuthorsJames P. Cannon PublishersMIA / IWW

James P. Cannon's obituary essay for Big Bill Haywood, May 22, 1928.

Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersFreedom Archives

This pamphlet, written by Michael "Cetewayo" Tabor, a political prisoner part of the Panther 21, deals with heroin and the issue of drug addiction, specifically its effects on the Black community of Harlem. This particular copy was reprinted by the Women's Bail Fund.

Capsule Summary of the Marion Lockdown

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1983 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

Includes timeline and description of conditions.

Carolyn Baxter Reads Coca Cola 2

CollectionMaterials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies" PublishersFreedom Archives

Carolyn Baxter reads Marilyn Buck's poem on desire.

Centralia: A Story of Wartime Murder (1922)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1922 PublishersIWW (MIA mirror)

IWW account of the 1919 Centralia Massacre and the wartime persecution of Wesley Everest and Wobbly defendants.

Cesar Chavez — Part 1 of 17

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1973 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ file on Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers. White-House-directed 'special investigation' surveillance of Chavez; relevant to labor-organizer prosecution history.

Cesar Chavez — Part 2 of 17

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1973 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI Chavez file Part 2.

Chant For My Sisters: Poems for the New Year -- 1987

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateJanuary 1, 1987 PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

A compilation of poems created by Women Against Imperialism. Includes poems by women of the third world and illustrations.

Chant for Our Times

CollectionEldridge Cleaver PublishersFreedom Archives

Poem/spoken word from Eldridge Cleaver.

Chicago Police Torture: A Legal and Political History

CollectionPeople's Law Office — Hampton, Torture, FALN PublishersPeople's Law Office

Comprehensive history of the Jon Burge torture regime at Chicago's Area 2/3, and the decades-long fight by survivors and counsel for accountability and reparations.

Chrystos Reads Authenticity

CollectionMaterials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies" PublishersFreedom Archives

Menominee rights activist and poet Chrystos read Marilyn Buck's piece on violence against urban Black youth.

Church Committee Final Report — Book II

CollectionChurch Committee Reports DateApril 26, 1976 PublishersU.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities

Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans. Lays out the FBI's domestic intelligence and disruption programs against civil rights and antiwar movements; named source for many political-prisoner wrongful-conviction claims.

Church Committee Final Report — Book III

CollectionChurch Committee Reports DateApril 26, 1976 PublishersU.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities

Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans. The definitive congressional documentation of COINTELPRO operations against MLK, BPP, AIM, SWP, Puerto Rican independence groups, and the Communist Party USA.

Church Committee Hearings Vol. 2 — Huston Plan

CollectionChurch Committee Reports Year1975 PublishersU.S. Senate

Senate hearings on the Huston Plan for expanded domestic intelligence. Documents the Nixon-era plan that authorized illegal surveillance against Weather Underground, BPP, and antiwar-movement prisoners.