Records
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...
COINTELPRO White Hate Groups — Part 01
FBI COINTELPRO file on KKK and white-supremacist groups. Includes informant relationships with klansmen later prosecuted in the Viola Liuzzo and civil rights worker murders.
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.
Church Committee Final Report — Book II
Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans. Lays out the FBI's domestic intelligence and disruption programs against civil rights and antiwar movements; named source for many political-prisoner wrongful-conviction claims.
Kathleen Cleaver COINTELPRO 101 Extra Footage
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...
Pelican Bay Prison Express [Vol. 1-1]
Cover Story: Pelican Bay Prison SHU Hell Hole of California. Other focuses include the civil rights suit brought by the prisoners against Warden Charles Marshall; the Pelican Bay Information Project; "Skeleton Bay" Prison by Luis V. Rodriguez; SHU Prisoners win Right to Marry; Widow of Murdered Prisoner Sets the Record Straight.
The Women of the Ohio 7
Zine of statements and autobiographical writings by Patricia Gros Levasseur, Carol Saucier Manning, and Barbara Curzi-Laaman — the three women among the seven United Freedom Front / Ohio 7 defendants tried in 1989 in Springfield, Massachusetts on federal sedition and RICO charges. The zine reproduces their pre-trial statements (including Manning's account of...
Viola Liuzzo — Part 1 of 17
FBI file on the Klan murder of civil rights worker Viola Liuzzo. FBI informant Gary Rowe was in the car when Liuzzo was killed; the file is core evidence in COINTELPRO 'White Hate Groups' accountability.
Voice of the Voiceless: The Case of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Case-history and movement-statement collection on Mumia Abu-Jamal — journalist, former Black Panther Party member, longtime MOVE supporter, and U.S. political prisoner held by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania since 1981 on a conviction arising from the December 9, 1981 killing of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. Combines case documents, trial-rec...
Civil Rights, The Black Panthers, Anarchism And Today
YearZero Civil Rights, The Black Panthers, Anarchism And Today An Interview with Anarchist Community Organizers Lorenzo Komboa Ervin and JoNina Abron 2001... Sourced from theanarchistlibrary.org.