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.
Records
Found 3 records
Eugene V. Debs — Canton Speech (1918)
Debs's June 16, 1918 antiwar speech and trial record under the Espionage Act. Debs is the foundational U.S. Espionage Act political prisoner (10-year sentence, Atlanta federal pen); he ran for president from prison in 1920.
Harrisburg telegraph — 1918-09-14 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (sentencing))
Day-of report on Debs sentenced to 10 years federal prison
The Washington herald — 1918-09-15 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (sentencing))
Front-page report on Debs' 10-year prison sentence