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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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Afro-American Dignity News

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateNovember 2, 1964 PublishersAfro-American Association

Local Oakland African-American newspaper. Cover story: integration success without violence.

Angela Davis Release Speech [mp3]

CollectionAngela Davis PublishersFreedom Archives

Angela Davis, African-American leader, scholar, and prison abolitionist. She was charged in connection with events at the Marin Courthouse on August 7, 1970. this is from her first statement after her acquittal.

Application for Repatriation and Dual Citizenship for African American Political Prisoners of War and Ex-Political Prisoners

CollectionRepublic of New Afrika DateJanuary 1, 1994 PublishersFreedom Archives

Historical Persepctive on Political Prisoners and POWs from the Black Liberation Movement being held in the US. Includes profiles on political prisoners and the Geneva Convention Regulations as related to prisoners of war.

Arm The Spirit - First Edition

CollectionArm the Spirit DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersFreedom Archives

First Issue - formerly Voices From Within (the one and only issue was banned hence the name change) Cover Story: Message from the Editors; The Current Situation in the Political Prisoner Unit AKA Management Control Unit at California State Prison at San Quentin; Lewisburg political prisoners made scapegoat for prison fires (Michael Ashanti Alston); A draft p...

Arm the Spirit No. 14

CollectionArm the Spirit DateJanuary 1, 1982 PublishersFreedom Archives

Articles include: Support New African Freedom Fighters; The Necessity of Armed Fighters; From Sekou Odinga- New Afrikan Prisoner of War; New Afrikan Freedom Fighters Day; National Conference Strengths Struggle Against Repression (Jose Lopez); Grand Jury Resistors Arrested; FALN Bombs Wall Street; Statements from Political Prisoners; Zionism is Racism: Palest...

Assata Shakur on African Women [mp3]

CollectionAssata Shakur PublishersFreedom Archives

Assata Shakur on the importance of Black women participating and leading the Black Liberation Struggle.

Assata Shakur on her core values [mp3]

CollectionAssata Shakur PublishersFreedom Archives

Assata Shakur speaks on her core values (freedom and justice for all people) and the importance of African women participating in every aspect of the struggle.

Breakthrough (June-July 1977)

CollectionBreakthrough DateJanuary 1, 1977 PublishersFreedom Archives

Introducing Breakthrough No. 2 p. 1 - On the Conviction of Leonard Peltier with a reprint of a support statement by the Native Study Group of Vancouver, British Columbia p. 4 - The Guardian Sets Out to Build Itself a Party, a PFOC critique p. 9 - The Guardian on Women's "Emancipation" - a proposal to move backwards by Flynn and friends - Burning Spear: repri...

Breakthrough (Spring 1978)

CollectionBreakthrough DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersFreedom Archives

Anti-imperialist struggle sharpening; PFOC self-criticism p. 1 - Palestine will win! P. 8 -I declare (poem by Mahmoud Darweesh) p. 23 - IWY Houston new stage of struggle p. 24 - notes from an Afrikan POW journal by New Afrikan Prisoners Organization p. 37 - Press statement by the African People's Socialist Party p. 52 - Free the L.A. Five p. 54 - speech by A...

Breakthrough (Winter-Spring 1987)

CollectionBreakthrough DateJanuary 1, 1987 PublishersFreedom Archives

Editorials: Puerto Rico: Yankee Go Home p. 1 - Defend the Palestinian Revolution p. 4 - Contragate p. 6 - Chicago: Confronting the Racist Right p. 7 - Myth of Black Progress, New Afrikan People's Organization p. 17 - Kuwasi Balagoon 1946-1986 p. 21 - U.S. and Zaire Training African Contras p. 22 - Chile: Crisis in the Southern Cone p. 24 - Interview with Pue...

Chokwe Lumumba Interview

PublishersAfrica Today

Walter Turner's tribute program to Chokwe Lumumba, Black Liberation and Human Rights lawyer, who transitioned in 2014.

Crossroad [January-March 2003]

CollectionCrossroad DateJanuary 1, 2003 PublishersSpear & Shield

This volume contains: a little story on why not to please people too much, a poem by James Weldon Johnson, a poem by Dave Bartholomew & Pearl King; The Black Star Project provides statistics on African American and Latino students' performance in grade 11, college and university from 1997 to 2002, "An Exemplary Comrade rides ahead" commemorates the death of...

Crossroad [July - September 2003]

CollectionCrossroad DateJanuary 1, 2003 PublishersSpear & Shield

This volume contains: "New Afrikan Declaration of Independence", a manifesto of the New Afrikan Creed, "African Anti-Terrorism Statement" by prisoners of conscious committee is on gentrification, police terrorism, prisons as concentration camps, land grab, education and biological warfare, Pan Africanist Congress of Azania ('south africa'), letter on struggl...

Crossroad [May - June 2003]

CollectionCrossroad DateJanuary 1, 2003 PublishersSpear & Shield

This volume contains: a drawing by Zolo Agona Azania ("Death Voyeur"), "New Afrikan Declaration of Independence", a manifesto of the New Afrikan Creed, an open letter against the war in Iraq to Black, Latino and poor white youth, "There is fighting in Iraq but the real war is in Afrika" is on US imperialist biological warfare in Africa, statement in support...

Delbert Africa Tribute — Full

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Philly DateAugust 11, 2020 PublishersPhiladelphia Anarchist Black Cross

Video tribute to MOVE 9 member Delbert Africa shown at the August 8th, 2020 protest against police terror and tribute event, following his death after release.

Delbert Africa Tribute — Part 1

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Philly DateAugust 11, 2020 PublishersPhiladelphia Anarchist Black Cross

Part 1 of the Delbert Africa tribute video from the August 8th, 2020 protest against police terror.

Delbert Africa Tribute — Part 2

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Philly DateAugust 11, 2020 PublishersPhiladelphia Anarchist Black Cross

Part 2 of the Delbert Africa tribute video from the August 8th, 2020 protest against police terror.

Delbert Africa Tribute — Part 3

CollectionAnarchist Black Cross — Philly DateAugust 11, 2020 PublishersPhiladelphia Anarchist Black Cross

Part 3 of the Delbert Africa tribute video from the August 8th, 2020 protest against police terror.

Directions in Black Studies

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateJanuary 1, 1969 PublishersMassachusetts Review

Articles include: BLACK STUDIES A POLITICAL PERSPECTIVE by Mike Thelwell ANATOMY OF THE BLACK STUDIES MOVEMENT by Martin Kilson TWO FUNDAMENTAL PROBLEMS by Harold Cruse QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT BLACK STUDIES Nathan Hare THE QUEST FOR MEANINGFUL BLACK EXPERIENCE ON WHITE CAMPUSES William J. Wilson CONTOURS OF BLACK STUDIES : THE DIMENSION OF AFRICAN AND AF...

International Women Study Questions

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Study materials focusing on women in South Africa, the Philippines, Nicaragua.

Jericho/USHRN Submission on US Political Prisoners (UN OHCHR consultation)

CollectionJericho Movement Year2020 PublishersJericho Movement / USHRN to UN OHCHR

Civil society submission to UN documenting Black PPs of African descent in US.

Kwame Ture reads In Honor to Marilyn Buck

CollectionMaterials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies" PublishersFreedom Archives

Kwame Ture honors Marilyn Buck's work and activism. Kwame Ture was a national leader of SNCC and the Black Power movement in the 1960s (as Stokely Carmichael). He spent 30 years in Guinea working in the Pan African movement. Kwame died shortly after making this recording.

Letters From Exile — Raymond Luc Levasseur (Marion Prison writings)

CollectionMovement Reference AuthorsRaymond Luc Levasseur Publishersself-published / movement zine

Collected Marion-prison-era writings of Raymond Luc Levasseur, United Freedom Front / Sam Melville–Jonathan Jackson Unit prisoner held in U.S. federal custody from 1984 to 2004 (and earlier in Tennessee state custody 1969–1971). Includes 'The Uprising' and Levasseur's letters from Marion, where he was held in the federal control-unit prison's special housing...

Malcolm X on Oginga Odinga

CollectionMalcolm X PublishersFreedom Archives

Malcolm X speaking on African freedom fighters.

Malcom X on Pan-Africanism

CollectionMalcolm X PublishersFreedom Archives

Short audio clip of Malcolm X speaking on Pan-Africanism.