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 5 records
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners — House Judiciary Hearings
Full transcript of 1921 hearings on amnesty for WWI-era Espionage Act prisoners; testimony from defense committees, Debs supporters, IWW counsel.
Freedom of Speech and the Espionage Act
Henry W. Taft pamphlet defending Espionage Act prosecutions, with case-by-case discussion of WWI political-speech convictions.
Great Falls tribune — 1921-12-24 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (Harding commutation))
Front-page report on Harding's commutation of Debs
The Haywood Affair (Loebl, 1921)
Loebl's 1921 essay on Big Bill Haywood's flight to Soviet Russia while on bail in the federal IWW prosecutions.
The Milwaukee leader — 1921-12-25 (Eugene Debs Espionage Act (Harding commutation))
Christmas Day Milwaukee Leader front page on Debs' commutation