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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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Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement

Year1988 AuthorsWard Churchill and Jim Vander Wall PublishersSouth End Press / Internet Archive

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.

Black Power!

CollectionBlack Panther Party (Northern California) DateJanuary 1, 1967 PublishersBlack Panther Party of Northern California

Black Power!

CollectionBlack Panther Party (Northern California) DateSeptember 1, 1967 PublishersBlack Panther Party of Northern California

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!

CollectionBlack Panther Party (Northern California) DateJanuary 1, 1968 PublishersBlack Panther Party of Northern California

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

CollectionBlack Panther Party Local Chapters DateJanuary 1, 2009 PublishersFreedom Archives

Forward; A Brief History of the Philadelphia Chapter BPP; Some pictures of comrades; Roll Call.

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

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.

December 20 -- Our Theory Will Unite With Our Practice... Afeni Shakur

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersNew York 21 Communications Black Panther Party

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...

FBI File on the Black Panther Party (NC Subfile 105-165706)

CollectionFBI FOIA — Consolidated Year1970 PublishersFBI (Internet Archive FOIA release)

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

CollectionBlack Panther Party (Northern California) PublishersFreedom Archives

Information sheet to assist people who want to write letters of support for parole of David Hilliard

Fred Hampton — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1969 PublishersFBI Vault

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.

Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Kathleen Cleaver became involved in the civil rights movement. In 1967 she left college to work full-time for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). The following year she met Eldridge Cleaver and moved from New York to San Francisco to join the Black Panther Party (BPP). Kathleen Cleaver became the BPP's National Communications Secretary and...

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...

Letter re parole of David Hilliard

CollectionBlack Panther Party (Northern California) DateSeptember 15, 1972 PublishersGarry, Dreyfus, McTernan & Brotsky

Letter to CA Adult Authority to parole David Hilliard, Chief of Staff of Black Panther Party.

Ministry of Information Black Paper

CollectionBlack Panther Party (Northern California) DateJanuary 31, 1968 PublishersBlack Panther Party for Self-Defense

Position of BPP re: 7th C.D. election and candidacy of John George in Democratic Party

Open letter to Roy Wilkins

CollectionHuey Newton PublishersBlack Panther Party National Headquarters

Open letter/press release re: Wilkins's criticism of Newton's statement re: commitment of BPP to NLF-Vietnam

Peoples Witness - March 15, 1974

CollectionPeoples Witness DateMarch 15, 1974 PublishersSacramento Solidarity Committee

Cover story is a discussion of a communique about the "Peoples Lawsuit" against Huey P. Newton and the Oakland Based Black Panther Party. Also includes ideas about the Lumpen Proletariat, and the concept of "conscious and unconscious political prisoners" as including people imprisoned for economic crimes.

Peoples Witness - May 15, 1974

CollectionPeoples Witness DateMay 15, 1974 PublishersSacramento Solidarity Committee

Cover story is "'Rebellion' in Folsom Hole" focusing on recent news coverage of incidents in California Prisons. Also includes a discussion of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang, an article about the American Nazi Movement, and an open letter to the Oakland Based Black Panther Party in response to an editorial about Huey P. Newton being targeted by the Symbio...

Search and Destroy: Fred Hampton/Mark Clark Commission Report

CollectionPeople's Law Office — Hampton, Torture, FALN Year1970 PublishersPeople's Law Office

1970 commission report on the police assassination of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in Chicago, December 4, 1969.

The Black Voice Vol. 5-2

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications PublishersUnited Black Workers Ford Mahwah Plantation

A Call To An International Worker's Day Rally. Articles on the purpose of the Black Voice, A Visit with the Black Panther Party, the Struggle for Labor Unity, and local plant news and perspectives.

US Political Prisoners — Joint Stakeholder Report to the UN UPR (Annex 23)

Year2010 AuthorsU.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN) and partner organizations PublishersU.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN)

Joint stakeholder report submitted by the U.S. Human Rights Network (USHRN) and partner organizations to the United Nations Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) Session 09 in 2010. Annex 23 documents the continued imprisonment of U.S. political prisoners — including former Black Panther Party members, Puerto Rican independentistas, MOVE mem...

Vita Wa Watu: New Afrikan Theoretical Journal Book Eleven

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

Three Speeches by Fred Hampton; Counterintelligence Against the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party; Tasks of Cadres in Organizing Black Workers; The Role of the New Afrikan Historian; On National Democratic Revolution, Mass Organization, and Communication Networks; Capitalism and the Black Experience; On Our Use of the Word "Comrad"

Ward Churchill COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage

CollectionGovernment Repression PublishersFreedom Archives

Ward Churchill is a prolific American Indian scholar/activist, Ward Churchill is a founding member of the Rainbow Council of Elders, and longtime member of the leadership council of the American Indian Movement of Colorado. In addition to his numerous works on Indigenous history, he has written extensively on U.S. foreign policy and the repression of politic...

Whites for Defense of Newton

CollectionHuey Newton DateApril 1, 1968 PublishersWhites for the Defense of Huey Newton

Fundraising letter re: Huey Newton's legal defense with attachment: "The Black Panther Party - Why?"