Records
COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 01
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
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
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
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
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
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)
Final volume of the COINTELPRO-SWP HQ file. Closing memoranda on the SWP disruption program.
COINTELPRO White Hate Groups — Part 01
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
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
National census of people held in solitary confinement.
Caleb Powers — Appeal Circular (Washington, D.C., April 1906)
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)
James P. Cannon's obituary essay for Big Bill Haywood, May 22, 1928.
Capitalism Plus Dope Equals Genocide
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
Includes timeline and description of conditions.
Carolyn Baxter Reads Coca Cola 2
Carolyn Baxter reads Marilyn Buck's poem on desire.
Centralia: A Story of Wartime Murder (1922)
IWW account of the 1919 Centralia Massacre and the wartime persecution of Wesley Everest and Wobbly defendants.
Cesar Chavez — Part 1 of 17
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
FBI Chavez file Part 2.
Chant For My Sisters: Poems for the New Year -- 1987
A compilation of poems created by Women Against Imperialism. Includes poems by women of the third world and illustrations.
Chicago Police Torture: A Legal and Political History
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
Menominee rights activist and poet Chrystos read Marilyn Buck's piece on violence against urban Black youth.
Church Committee Final Report — Book II
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
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
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.