Records
Afeni Shakur: Joining Black Panther Party
Afeni Shakur recollects the first time meeting Bobby Seal in New York City who was speaking out against the police and acknowledges that what attracted her to the Black Panther Party in the beginning was romanization of liberation struggle.
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall's documentary history of FBI operations against the BPP and AIM. Primary published synthesis of COINTELPRO targeting of Peltier, Pratt, the Panther 21, and Wounded Knee defendants.
Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Foundational 1988 movement history by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (South End Press). Documents the FBI's COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, drawing on Bureau records released under FOIA, court records, and movement testimony. Part I covers the FBI as political police, the COINTEL...
Anarchism and the Black Revolution
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin's foundational text linking anarchism with Black liberation, written and revised across the late 1970s and 1980s while Ervin was a Black Panther Party-aligned political prisoner in U.S. federal custody following his hijacking conviction. Originally circulated as a movement pamphlet and republished in expanded book form (most recently by...
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur's 1987 autobiography (Lawrence Hill Books / Zed). Black Liberation Army member, former Black Panther Party member, convicted in 1977 of the May 2, 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike after a confrontation that left Assata wounded and fellow BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur dead. Sentenced to life in N...
Black Panther Intercommunal News Service (1971)
Reprint of the Black Panther Party newspaper, 1971.
Black Panther Party 35th Anniversary & Reunion Conference (poster)
A poster for the Black Panther Party 35th Anniversary & Reunion Conference in Washington, D.C., April 18–20, 2002, organized by the It's About Time Committee on the theme "COINTELPRO & Political Prisoners." It advertises workshops, a banquet, film and photo/art exhibits, and speakers; is illustrated with eight photographs; and frames the gathering around the...
Black Power!
This issue of the Black Power! newsletter opens with a report on the July 1967 rebellions in Detroit, MI and violence against protestors by the National Guard. Following articles report on the nationwide uprisings in and state violence against protestors and Black Power activists. A statement by H. Rap Brown (Jamil al Amin) urges readers to protest, arguing...
Black Power!
This issue of the Black Power! Newsletter includes: an editorial in support of Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka); an account of recent state action against H. Rap Brown (Jamil A. Amin) including calls to action for readers to support his case; a statement on a grand jury indictment against white antiwar activists including Dr. Spock; an essay about French president...
Brief History of the Philadelphia Chapter Black Panther Party
Forward; A Brief History of the Philadelphia Chapter BPP; Some pictures of comrades; Roll Call.
COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 01
FBI HQ counterintelligence file targeting 'Black Nationalist - Hate Groups' under COINTELPRO. Master file documenting FBI's operations against the Black Panther Party, RAM, Republic of New Afrika, SCLC, SNCC, and individuals including Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, and Huey Newton.
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era — Dan Berger (2014)
Dan Berger's history of Black prison organizing from the 1950s through the 1980s — the political base of the political-prisoner support tradition that PFOC's *Breakthrough* magazine covered most consistently. Includes substantial treatment of the BLA, the RNA, the Black Panther Party prisoner support work, and the Attica uprising.
December 20 -- Our Theory Will Unite With Our Practice... Afeni Shakur
This statement emphasizes how economic hardship and the lack of basic necessities such as food and adequate shelter drive women to commit small crimes which lead to their imprisonment. It explores the inhumane treatment of women throughout legal proceedings and jail time when being charged for crimes, and provides information about efforts among an emerging...
Eldridge Cleaver Petition Campaign
An urgent information sheet and petition demanding the release of Black Panther Party Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver, whose parole was revoked without a hearing after the April 6, 1968 Oakland police shootout that killed Bobby Hutton and wounded Cleaver. It gives background on the case and instructions for gathering signatures; the verso carries th...
FBI File on the Black Panther Party (NC Subfile 105-165706)
Fifteen-section FBI HQ subfile on BPP activity in North Carolina. Same BPP surveillance series as the Vault entries above.
Fact Sheet on David Hilliard, Chief of Staff, Black Panther Party
Information sheet to assist people who want to write letters of support for parole of David Hilliard
Fred Hampton Speaks [mp3]
Short clip of Illinois Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton speaking at the University of Chicago.
Fred Hampton — Part 01
FBI HQ file on Fred Hampton, Chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party. Documents the FBI / Chicago PD targeting that culminated in the police killing of Hampton and Mark Clark on December 4, 1969.
George Jackson — Black Panther Newspaper Coverage (August 28, 1971)
Black Panther Party newspaper coverage of George Jackson's August 21, 1971 killing at San Quentin.
Geronimo Ji Jaga from COINTELPRO 101 (Video Clip #1)
High-ranking member of the Black Panther Party and human rights activist. Wrongly convicted, through a COINTELPRO operation, of murder and spent 27 years in prison.
Geronimo Ji Jaga from COINTELPRO 101 [Video Clip]
High-ranking member of the Black Panther Party and human rights activist. Wrongly convicted, through a COINTELPRO operation, of murder and spent 27 years in prison.
Geronimo Ji Jaga on Black Liberation
Geronimo Ji Jaga explains the emergence of the Black Panther party as a small piece of the Black Liberation movement.
Huey Says Panthers are Not Parties to Extortion
A letter from Huey P. Newton of the Black Panther Party to Mr. and Mrs. Randolph Hearst. The letter volunteers the Black Panthers to distribute the food as part of the bargain from the SLA to return Patricia Hearst to her family.
Jalil Abdul Muntaqim Biography
Autobiographical statement from Black Panther Party and Black Liberation Army member Jalil Muntaqim (Anthony Bottom), one of the New York 3.