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.
Records
Found 6 records
Debs Indicted (Espionage Act, 1918)
Contemporary coverage of Eugene V. Debs's 1918 indictment under the Espionage Act for the Canton, Ohio anti-war speech.
Debs v. United States, 249 U.S. 211 (1919)
Supreme Court opinion affirming Eugene Debs's Espionage Act conviction for the 1918 Canton, Ohio anti-war speech.
New-York tribune — 1918-06-17 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (Canton speech))
NY Tribune coverage of Debs' Canton anti-war speech
Pierce v. United States, 252 U.S. 239 (1920)
Supreme Court affirming Espionage Act conviction of socialists who distributed 'The Price We Pay' anti-war pamphlet.
Richmond times-dispatch — 1918-06-17 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (Canton speech))
Front-page report on Debs' Canton, Ohio anti-war speech
The Abolitionist Issue 42: Anti-War Organizing
Anti-war organizing through an abolitionist lens; coverage of Palestine solidarity prosecutions and the criminalization of protest.