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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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Found 1,033 records

!Hacia un Grito de Lares Sin Prisioneros de Guerra ni Prisioneros Politicos!

CollectionMovimiento de Liberacion Nacional (MLN) DateJanuary 1, 1985 PublishersMLN-PR, Partido Socialista Puertorriqueno, (PSP)

Introduction of Jose Luis Rodriguez, a 24 year old independientista, to speak at a cultural event dedicated to Don Juan Antonio Corretjer and celebrating "el Grito de Lares"

"Dykes to Step Out For": A Lesbian Dance (Flyer)

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Flyer for dance to benefit the lesbian work of Women Against Imperialism.

"Dykes to Step Out For": A Lesbian Dance (Program)

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Program for benefit of the Women's Caucus of Women Against Imperialism.

"Scottsboro Boys Must Not Die" — Mass Meeting Broadside

Year1934 PublishersInternational Labor Defense / Mt. Carmel Baptist Church

International Labor Defense broadside calling DC working people to a 1934 Scottsboro defense rally with Ruby Bates and Allan Taub.

200 Years of Oppression is Enough

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateJanuary 1, 1976 PublishersPrarie Fire Organizing Committee

Statement about the July 4th coalition intended to challenge the bi-centennial in 1976.

47 Days in Jail (Foster, 1910)

CollectionMarxists Internet Archive — IWW & Smith Act Year1910 AuthorsWilliam Z. Foster PublishersMIA / IWW

William Z. Foster's account of 47 days of confinement during the 1909–1910 IWW Spokane free-speech fight.

500 Years of Resistance Through Womyn's Eyes Program

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism DateMarch 1, 1900 PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

International Women's Day demonstration plan for 2 rallies.

500 Years of Resistance... Through Women's Eyes

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

Advertisement for International Women's Day demonstration 1992.

A Brief History of Lesbian Oppression: Or, If Lesbianism is so Groovy, How Come Everybody Hates Us?

CollectionWomen Against Imperialism PublishersWomen Against Imperialism

A brief history of lesbian specific homophobia, ant-gay laws, and its interaction with misogyny.

A Brief Report on the April 1 Appeals Hearing

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1988 PublishersCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown

4/1/1988 appeal of the denial of the class action suit filed by the prisoners at Marion to end the lockdown

A Child Lost in the Storm

CollectionWhite Anti-Imperialist Prisoners DateMarch 28, 1990 AuthorsEduardo Galeano (Translated by Marilyn Buck) PublishersEl Pais

Reproduction of Eduardo Galeano's personal essay, excerpted from El Pais (March 28, 1990), translated into English by Marilyn Buck while she was imprisoned. From the Freedom Archives' Marilyn Buck literary file in the White Anti-Imperialist Prisoners collection.

A Decade in Defense of Human Rights 1968-1978

CollectionNational Lawyers Guild DateJanuary 1, 1978 PublishersNational Conference of Black Lawyers (NCBL)

A Decade in Struggle, 1968-1978 NCBL Report

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.

A History of the NLG 1937-1987

CollectionNational Lawyers Guild Year1987 PublishersNational Lawyers Guild

Historical document covering NLG defense of PPs across 50 years (Smith Act, Panthers, AIM).

A Jail is a Jail

CollectionWomen's Bail Fund PublishersFreedom Archives

Typed flyer on a sheet of blue paper, double-sided. Opens with a discussion of the June 1971 transfer of inmates from NYC's infamous Women's House of Detention to the newly constructed New York City Correctional Facility for Women, which was done suddenly to try to avoid protests. The new facility at Rikers Island is described as an "isolated penal colony" w...

A Prisoner Remembers the Attica Massacre

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion PublishersLiberation News Service

An interview conducted by Liberation News Service with Chris Reed, a 23 year old black inmate who participated in the rebellion and was indicted with 18 other inmates on 34 counts of first degree kidnapping.

A Public Report About Violent Mass Assault Against Prisoners and Continuing Illegal Punishment & Torture of the Prison Population at the U.S. Penitentiary at Marion, Illinois

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1983 PublishersMarion Prisoners' Rights Project

Details events and conditions of the initial Marion Lockdown.

A Report From Inside Attica

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateSeptember 17, 1971 PublishersPrisoners Solidarity Committee

A special 8 paged newsletter on Attica. Contents include: Unity and Courage vs. Rockefeller's Machine Guns; Report from inside Attica; Prisoners' Relatives Tell Their Story; Protests over Massacre Erupt in Many Cities; For These Demands They Died

A Report on the Marion/Lexington Demonstration (with media reports and solidarity messages from prisoners)

CollectionCommittee to End the Marion Lockdown DateJanuary 1, 1986 PublishersIn These Times; Lexington Herald Leader; Arizona Daily Star; Daily Egyptian; SF Guardian; Committee to End the Marion Lockdown; Southern Illinoisian; Chicago Defender

Details history of CEML, the Conference for Education in 1985, and preparations for the demonstration at Lexington and Marion on 4/19/1986.

A Single Spark: Internal Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateMay 1, 1976 PublishersPrarie Fire Organizing Committee

In this Issue: The main thrust of this issue of the newsletter is rectification. It contains a political history of the two line struggle in the organization, self-criticisms from National Committee members who take main responsibility for leading in the incorrect line; evaluations of the process of rectification in the chapters. There are three articles dea...

A Single Spark: Newsletter of the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee

CollectionPrairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC) DateJanuary 1, 1976 PublishersPrarie Fire Organizing Committee

In this Issue: The White Oppressor Nation; The National Question: Some Recent Positions; Rectification and PFOC's Analysis of July 4th; July 4th: National Evaluation; July 4th: New York Chapter; Rectification in Boston: The Anti-Racism Committee; A Report on the Native American Treaty Conference.

A Voice from Harper's Ferry (1861 First Edition)

CollectionLibrary of Congress — John Brown / Harpers Ferry Year1861 AuthorsOsborne P. Anderson PublishersOsborne P. Anderson, Boston

Osborne P. Anderson's first-edition account of the Harpers Ferry raid.

A Voice from Harper's Ferry — Life and Death of the Last John Brown Hero (1873)

CollectionLibrary of Congress — John Brown / Harpers Ferry Year1873 AuthorsOsborne P. Anderson PublishersOsborne P. Anderson

Memoir by Osborne P. Anderson, the only Black survivor of Brown's raid (1873 reprint).

ALF Prisoner Support: The Basics

CollectionSprout Distro PublishersSprout Distro (Bite Back Magazine)

Zine on supporting Animal Liberation Front prisoners.

ATTICA: "We are men. We are not beasts and will not be driven as such"

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion PublishersPontiac Prisoners Support Coalition

See the Movie "Attica" and learn about the Pontiac Rebellion.