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.
Records
Found 8 records
Daily Kennebec journal — 1918-07-01 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (arrest))
Front-page coverage of Debs' arrest under the Espionage Act
Evening star — 1918-08-18 (IWW Chicago Case (Haywood et al. conviction))
Front-page report on guilty verdict for Haywood and 100 IWW defendants
Harrisburg telegraph — 1918-09-14 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (sentencing))
Day-of report on Debs sentenced to 10 years federal prison
New-York tribune — 1918-06-17 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (Canton speech))
NY Tribune coverage of Debs' Canton anti-war speech
Pine Bluff daily graphic — 1918-08-18 (IWW Chicago Case (Haywood et al. conviction))
Front-page coverage of the IWW Chicago trial verdict
Richmond times-dispatch — 1918-06-17 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (Canton speech))
Front-page report on Debs' Canton, Ohio anti-war speech
The Milwaukee leader — 1918-07-01 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (arrest))
Front-page report (Debs' own Socialist paper) on his arrest
The Washington herald — 1918-09-15 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (sentencing))
Front-page report on Debs' 10-year prison sentence