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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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Found 17 records

Awakening of a Dragon

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateJuly 1, 1975 PublishersBlack Community News Letter

Celebrate the Victory of Vietnam Over U.S. Imperialism; Honor Our Fallen One (Melvin Rema Kearney); Communique from the Black Liberation Army; United Nations May 30th Statement in Support of Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners; World's Largest Dope Pushers!; Doctors Are Middlemen; One Pill Can Kill; Methadone Sells Big on Street; more.

Black Liberation Now

CollectionBill Epton PublishersFreedom Archives

Black Liberation on Trial: The Case of Huey Newton

CollectionHuey Newton DateJanuary 1, 1968 PublishersBay Area Committee to Defend Political Freedom

Summary of the events of Huey Newton's Trial. includes the prosecution's case, the defense's case, a descriptive list of the jurors involved, witnesses, and more.

Come to the Citizen's Review Commission on the FBI!

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) PublishersNew York Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)

This flyer exposes the variety of tactics used in state-sponsored repression including grand juries and imprisonment to target as well as dismantle Black Liberation, Chicano, Puerto Rican Independence, and women's movements, among others.

Death to the Klan! Special Edition Winter 1981

CollectionJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee (Chicago) DateDecember 1, 1981 PublishersJohn Brown Anti-Klan Committee

Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. In this special edition issue: Revolutionary Struggle Escalates as Government Wages Terrorist Assault; Black Liberation Army Communique on the strategic alliance of the armed military forces of the Revolutionary Nationalist and Anti-Imperialist Movement; Memorial Service Honoring New Afrikan Freedom Fighter Mt...

Electoral Politics: Its Problems & Prospects

CollectionBill Epton DateJanuary 1, 1980 PublishersBlack Liberation Press

Towards Clarity around Electoral Action; Ruling Class not always united; Apathy Among the People; Some partially successful campaigns in the past; the question of the slogan: don't vote, organize; the role of radicals in electoral struggle; parliamentarianism; a revolutionary electoral program; A brief summation of electoral action and the Philadelphia Black...

Kiilu Nyasha Reads In Memory of Kuwasi Balagoon

CollectionMaterials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies" PublishersFreedom Archives

Kiilu Nyasha reads her poem in memory of Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army leader Kuwasi Balagoon, who died in prison in 1986. Kiilu Nyasha is a revolutionary artist, activist and journalist in the liberation struggle for over 35 years. A former Black Panther, she is a radio and newspaper journalist who has done much to keep political prisoners i...

Kuwasi Balagoon — Handwritten Prison Letter (Slogans Into Events)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1984 AuthorsKuwasi Balagoon Publishers@Workshops4Gaza (community share)

A handwritten page from one of Kuwasi Balagoon's prison letters (c. 1983–1985, Brink's-case era), containing the often-quoted passage: "The difference between most of us in here and most of the 'revolutionaries' outside is we took the slogans seriously, transforming the slogans into events. Now we must transform a series of events into a deadlier and consist...

Liberation Will Come from a Black Thing

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateJanuary 1, 1968 PublishersFreedom Archives

Taken from a speech given at the Western Regional Black Youth Conference, held in Los Angeles, California on Nov. 23, 1967. Introduction: Spurred by the intense rebellions of 1967, black people were groping with ways to heighten their struggle during the fall months of that year. As is the case today, there was much confusion then concerning the nature of th...

Mass Incarceration and Control Units in Prisons: Mind Control or Social Control?

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateOctober 21, 1995 PublishersFreedom Archives

About closing the control units at Marion Prison. Nancy Kurshan of CEML (Committee to End the Marion Lockdown), Dr. Alan Berkman who has provided medical care for Black Liberation Army and Panther members as well as AIM activists at Wounded Knee in the 1970s. Berkman also speaks about being a former political prisoner, the prison system and control units as...

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...

Muhammad Ahmad COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Muhammad Ahmad (formerly Max Stanford Jr.) was a pivotal figure within the Black Liberation Movement and struggle for Black Power in the 1960s and 70s; notably, he was the national field chairman of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and a direct target of J. Edgar Hoover's COINTELPRO. He is a professor at Temple University.

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...

Staajabu Reads Black August

CollectionMaterials Recorded and Gathered for "Wild Poppies" PublishersFreedom Archives

Staajabu reads Marilyn Buck's poem in memory of the those who lost their lives through imprisonment or death for Black liberation.

The Black Liberation Struggle (Within the Current World Struggle)

CollectionBill Epton DateJanuary 1, 1972 PublishersBlack Liberation Press

A transcript which followed a talk by Bill Epton reflecting on the state of Black Liberation within the current context of the world and other struggles. This talk touched on a number of elements and topics, such as white racism, male chauvinism, Marxist- Leninist principles and the importance of the "Third World".

Tip of the Iceberg (May 1981)

CollectionGovernment Repression DateMay 1, 1981 PublishersCommittee for the Suit Against Government Misconduct

Clark Plaintiffs Confront FBI; Victory in Pontiac Trial - State's Strategy Defeated; US "Anti-Terrorism": Counterinsurgency of the 80's; US Gov't Escalates Attacks on Black Liberation Movement; Reagan Pardons Cointelpro Criminals; Arab Student Fights Deportation; Zairean CIA Agents in the US; Red Squad Settlement Continues COINTELPRO Cover-up; Committee Targ...

Vita Wa Watu: More Notes from a New Afrikan POW Journal Book Eight

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

About These Notes; Black Liberation, A Speech by James Forman; Afterwords: Notes on the Transition of the "Black Liberation" Phrase, Concept, and Movement by Mwalimu Shanna and Seldom Seen; A Letter from the Creative Image Scholarship Fund