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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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A Fragment of the Prison Experiences of Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman

Year1919 PublishersLibrary of Congress (Paul Avrich Collection)

Pamphlet documenting Goldman and Berkman's imprisonment at Jefferson City and Atlanta for anti-conscription organizing. Directly about two of the most famous U.S. political prisoners; both convicted under the 1917 Espionage Act and deported in 1919.

General Defense Committee: Release All Class War Prisoners (Broadside)

CollectionLibrary of Congress — IWW Year1919 AuthorsWilliam D. Haywood PublishersGeneral Defense Committee of the IWW, Chicago

IWW broadside demanding release of all 'class war prisoners' jailed under wartime Espionage and state criminal-syndicalism statutes; signed by William D. Haywood.