Records
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.
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
Angela Davis's foundational essay collection on political prisoners, prisons, and Black liberation.
Jericho Movement Manual (2014)
Movement-to-free political prisoners organizing handbook.
The Rebel Girl: An Autobiography, My First Life (1906–1926)
The 1955 autobiography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn covering her early life and her organizing with the Industrial Workers of the World from the Spokane free-speech fights of 1909 through the Lawrence and Paterson textile strikes, the Joe Hill defense, the Tom Mooney case, the Sacco-Vanzetti campaign, the WWI Espionage Act prisoner defense, and the founding of...
The Struggle Within: Prisons, Political Prisoners, and Mass Movements in the United States — Dan Berger (2014)
Dan Berger's overview of U.S. political-prisoner support work from the 1960s onward. PFOC's *Breakthrough* and the parallel publications archived alongside this record are core primary sources for the period the book covers.