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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The Accused, The Accusers: The Famous Speeches of the Chicago Anarchists in Court (1886)
The closing courtroom statements of the eight Chicago anarchists convicted in connection with the May 4, 1886 Haymarket Affair: Albert Parsons, August Spies, Adolph Fischer, George Engel, Louis Lingg, Samuel Fielden, Michael Schwab, and Oscar Neebe. Delivered during the August–October 1886 trial before Judge Joseph Gary in the Cook County Criminal Court, and...