Records
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners — House Judiciary Hearings
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)
Companion edition of S. Doc. 224 — printed list of post-armistice federal political prisoners.
Amnesty to Prisoners Since the Armistice — S. Doc. 224
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)
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)
IWW broadside demanding release of all 'class war prisoners' jailed under wartime Espionage and state criminal-syndicalism statutes; signed by William D. Haywood.
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...