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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Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee — News Update (May 7, 1975)
A May 7, 1975 news update from the Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee on the resistance to the FBI and the federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky. It reports on the "formal request" to interrogate ten people in the Susan Saxe case, the four women then jailed for refusing to testify, the Sixth Circuit's April 28 statement questioning the purpose o...
Statement of the Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee (1975)
The Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee's statement on the March 8, 1975 jailing of six people — five women and one man, all gay — held in contempt for refusing to answer a federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky (the Lexington Six). It argues that using grand juries to coerce testimony, rather than to return indictments, is an abuse of the system...