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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.

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...

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.

Message to the Afro-American People from the Peoples Republic of the Congo

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateMay 1, 1971 PublishersFreedom Archives

Black Liberation Army Delegation to the Peoples Republic of the Congo. Includes pieces written by Eldridge Cleaver and Ernest Ndalla. Includes Message to Afro-Americans from Ernest Ndalla First Secretary of the Congolese Workers Party; After Brother Malcolm by Eldridge Cleaver; Congo (Brazzaville): A Political History by Michael Cetawayo Tabor; The Number On...

NOW!

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateJanuary 1, 1966 PublishersNOW Incorporated

Includes articles on MALCOLM X and Mississippi farm strikers. Also articles on aid to Africa and the political situation in Asia (VietNam).

PFOCs Response to the Criticism from the African Peoples Socialist Party

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersPrarie Fire Organizing Committee

statement in response to the criticism of PFOC by the African Peoples Socialist Party.

Racism in Prison System is Topic of Lawyers Guild Meet

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1988 PublishersPeople's Daily Word

Reproduction of 7/23/1988 article on the Lawyers Guild luncheon discussion of the disproportionate numbers of African Americans in the US prison system

Radical America

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateJanuary 1, 1968 PublishersSDS

An SDS Journal of American Radicalism: George Rawick- THE HISTORICAL ROOTS OF BLACK LIBERATION Diane DiPrima- REVOLUTIONARY LETTERS #15 J.R. Hooker- AFRICA FOR THE AFRO-AMERICANS GEORGE PADMORE AND THE BLACK PRESS DOCUMENT: C .L .R. JAMES ON THE ORIGINS BLACK EDITOR- AN INTERVIEW David Henderson- BOSTON ROAD BLUES Paul Buhle, NEW PERSPECTIVES ON AMERICAN RAD...

Remerica ! Amerika: 1492-1992 Exhibition Catalog

Collection1992 Tribunal DateSeptember 8, 1992 PublishersHunter College of The City University of New York

Exhibition catalog of Remerica ! Amerika: 1492-1992 at Hunter College of The City University of New York. Organized and with an essay (Remerica ! Amerika: Resurrecting "A Peoples' History" to Reaffirm Our Presence and Our Will To Emerge) by Juan Sanchez. Curatorial assistance and additional essays by Enoc Perez and Miguelangel Ruiz. Invited contributors: Coc...

Street Speaker

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateJanuary 1, 1956 PublishersAfrican Nationalist Pioneer Movement

SPECIAL FEATURE: The Tragic Consequence of White Psychology Other Articles include: MURDER WITHOUT REPENTANCE; NEGROES & NEGRO GOALS; PSYCHOSYNTHESIS; I AM MY BROTHERS KEEPER; SLAVES VS FREE MEN; ESCAPE VS CURE; IT'S BEEN THERE ALL THE TIME!

The Black Challenge

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateJanuary 1, 1959 PublishersAfrican Nationalist Pioneer Movement

Contents include: Marcus Garvey- Champion of African Redemption; IMPERIALISM, AND UPHOLDING THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS FOR INDEPENDENCE AND SOVEREIGNTY- A report by Khaled Moheiddin from Egypt THE ALGERIAN - PROBLEM Report - by Aiah Hasan (of Algeria) Inventions by Blacks If We Must Die by Claude McKay African Fundamentalism Reprint of HAITIAN DECLARATION OF INDEPE...

The Uprising — Raymond Luc Levasseur (Marion Prison, May 1992)

CollectionMovement Memoirs DateMay 1, 1992 AuthorsRaymond Luc Levasseur PublishersFriends of Political Prisoners / Internet Archive (community upload)

Raymond Luc Levasseur's May 1992 essay written from his cell at Marion Federal Prison in the immediate aftermath of the Los Angeles Uprising. Levasseur, a captured United Freedom Front leader serving 45 years for the 1976–1984 bombing campaign in support of Puerto Rican independence, anti-apartheid struggle, and Central American liberation movements, draws e...

Tri-continental Information Center Bulletin [June 1967]

CollectionTri-Continental Information Center Bulletin DateJune 1, 1967 PublishersTri-continental Information Center

In this issue, Tom Hayden reports on the current situation in Puerto Rico after visiting by invitation of the Movimiento Pro-Independencia (MPI); coverage of the fight for the liberation of South Africa, with an emphasis on exploitative labor practices; a US-backed military junta takes power in Greece, adopting the slogan "Stop Communism"; and more.

Tri-continental Information Center Bulletin [March 1968]

CollectionTri-Continental Information Center Bulletin DateMarch 1, 1968 PublishersTri-continental Information Center

This issue examines US aid to anti-revolutionary efforts in Guatemala and includes an article by Jean-Paul Sarte on South Africa and apartheid. It also features a report by Agostino Neto, President of the Angola Popular Liberation Movement, on the current situation of Angola's fight for liberation, and more.

Tri-continental Information Center Bulletin [November 1967]

CollectionTri-Continental Information Center Bulletin DateNovember 1, 1967 PublishersTri-continental Information Center

In this issue, excerpts from Fidel Castro's speech to the first conference of the Organization of Latin American Solidarity (OLAS); Frantz Fanon on the assassination of Patrice Lumumba and the Congo's capitulation to the United Nations; 36 South West Africans accused of inciting revolution are tried in the Supreme Court in Pretoria; and more.

Vita Wa Watu Book Nine

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateAugust 1, 1986 PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Notes on the Link Between Oppression of New Afrikan Women and the New Afrikan National Liberation Revolution Part One: The Origin and Nature of Women's Oppression; ending Colonial Police Violence in the African Community by Community Self-Defense Program, NY; Organization Means Commitment; On the RNA and the Provisional Government.

Vita Wa Watu Book Ten

CollectionNew Afrikan Prisoners Organization DateApril 1, 1987 PublishersSpear and Shield - New Afrikan Prisoners Organization

Reflections on the Resurgence of Student Activist; African Liberation Day 15th Anniversary Forum and Rally; Political education Course Materials Checklist; Building shields of Silence and Conviction; Where Do Correct Ideas come From? Revolutionary Morality: An Overview; On Revolutionary Morality; Resources; Characteristics (sic) o0f the Namibian Revolution;...

With the State Marshalling Resources to execute Teenagers, Can We Risk an Unfair Trial?

CollectionDeath Penalty PublishersDeath Penalty Focus of California

Flyer about concerns with the case People v. Polk in which two African-American teenagers are facing the death penalty.