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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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Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners — House Judiciary Hearings

CollectionLibrary of Congress — Espionage/Sedition Era Year1921 PublishersU.S. House Committee on the Judiciary (66th Cong.)

Full transcript of 1921 hearings on amnesty for WWI-era Espionage Act prisoners; testimony from defense committees, Debs supporters, IWW counsel.

Amnesty to Prisoners Since the Armistice (Alternate Edition)

CollectionLibrary of Congress — Espionage/Sedition Era Year1920 PublishersU.S. Senate

Companion edition of S. Doc. 224 — printed list of post-armistice federal political prisoners.

Amnesty to Prisoners Since the Armistice — S. Doc. 224

CollectionLibrary of Congress — Espionage/Sedition Era Year1920 PublishersU.S. Senate / Woodrow Wilson administration

Wilson's Justice Department reply to the Senate listing every Espionage / Selective Service Act prisoner still confined after the armistice, with names, sentences, and prisons.

Caleb Powers — Appeal Circular (Washington, D.C., April 1906)

DateApril 1, 1906 PublishersCaleb Powers Defense Committee

Fundraising circular describing Kentucky Secretary of State Caleb Powers as 'the noted Kentucky political prisoner' in the Goebel assassination case.

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.