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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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Free Assata Shakur

CollectionFreedom Archives AuthorsMay 19th Communist Organization PublishersFreedom Archives

Defense flyer for Assata Shakur produced by the May 19th Communist Organization in the 1980s.

The Insurgent, Vol. 3 No. 2 (Fall 1987)

CollectionThe Insurgent Year1987 PublishersCommittee to Fight Repression

The Insurgent was the newsletter of the Committee to Fight Repression, a 1980s publication produced by friends and families of U.S. political prisoners and prisoners of war. It covered the federal prison control units (Marion and the new women's unit at Lexington), Puerto Rican independence prisoners, Black liberation, grand-jury resistance, and anti-imperia...

Why Assata Shakur Must Be Supported

CollectionFreedom Archives PublishersFreedom Archives

BLA bulletin laying out the political case for supporting Assata Shakur and Sundiata Acoli.

Words from a Sister in Exile

CollectionAssata Shakur DateFebruary 1, 1988 PublishersFreedom Archives

When revolutionary political activist Assata Shakur (previously JoAnne Chesimard) made a daring escape from prison in 1979, she- like our fugative slave ancestors- became legendary in the Black community. Here she speaks about her life in Cuba today.