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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Revolutionary Suicide
Huey P. Newton's 1973 autobiography (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), written in part from inside the Alameda County Jail. Co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (Oakland, October 1966), Newton wrote the book during and after his 1968–1970 imprisonment on charges arising from the October 28, 1967 shooting that killed Oakland police officer John Fr...
The Black Panther Newspaper, 1967–1968 (Internet Archive collection — Vols. 1–2, 18 issues)
Internet Archive bulk collection mirroring eighteen issues of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service covering 1967 and 1968 — the BPP newspaper's foundational period. Includes the complete six-issue run of Volume 1 (April–December 1967) and twelve of the fifteen Volume 2 issues from 1968. The 1967–1968 issues document the Party's transition from a l...