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 7 records
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.
Evening public ledger — 1920-01-03 (Palmer Raids (Jan 2 1920))
Evening Public Ledger coverage of the Palmer Raids
Larkin Trial Coverage (1920)
Coverage of the New York criminal-anarchy prosecution of Irish labor leader James Larkin, sentenced to Sing Sing in 1920.
New-York tribune — 1920-01-03 (Palmer Raids (Jan 2 1920))
Front-page report on the nationwide January 2 1920 Palmer Raids
Pierce v. United States, 252 U.S. 239 (1920)
Supreme Court affirming Espionage Act conviction of socialists who distributed 'The Price We Pay' anti-war pamphlet.
Schaefer v. United States, 251 U.S. 466 (1920)
Supreme Court affirming Espionage Act convictions of the editors of the Philadelphia Tageblatt German-language paper.