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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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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.

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.

Black Pride Newsletter I

CollectionPrison - Newspapers DateJanuary 1, 1976 PublishersBlack Culture Society

Contents: Tying It All Together (Black Pride Staff); The Black Worker: 1954 to Present part III-conclusion (Ben Murdock); A review: Black Zion (Karamoko Baye); Preview of a Change of Pace (Black Pride Staff).

Black Pride Newsletter II

CollectionPrison - Newspapers DateMarch 1, 1976 PublishersBlack Culture Society

Contents: News Briefs from the Pan-Afrikan / 3rd World; Some Notes, & c. (Karamoko); The Black Worker: 1619-1914 (Ben Murdock); 1976: Court Rules Pullman Porters Discriminated against for Years (Akinshiju C. Ola).

Black Pride Newsletter III

CollectionPrison - Newspapers DateApril 1, 1976 PublishersBlack Culture Society

Contents: News Briefs from Pan-Afrikan / 3rd World; Reflections and Notes (Karamoko); Six Years Later (Nancy Banks); The Bicentennial: A Prisoner's Perspective (Charles Beasley); The Black Worker: 1914-1954 part II (Ben Murdock).

Church Committee Final Report — Book II

CollectionChurch Committee Reports DateApril 26, 1976 PublishersU.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities

Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans. Lays out the FBI's domestic intelligence and disruption programs against civil rights and antiwar movements; named source for many political-prisoner wrongful-conviction claims.

Church Committee Final Report — Book III

CollectionChurch Committee Reports DateApril 26, 1976 PublishersU.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Activities

Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans. The definitive congressional documentation of COINTELPRO operations against MLK, BPP, AIM, SWP, Puerto Rican independence groups, and the Communist Party USA.

Criticism of the Central Committee of the WUO

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) DateNovember 21, 1976 PublishersWeather Underground Organization

By the Revolutionary Committee. "It is our view that the line of the CC of the WUO, and the entirety of the organization's practice for the past two years has been opportunist and served the US imperialists..." The statement expands on this criticism with specific examples - crimes against National Liberation Struggles; crimes against women and the Women's M...

Hampton Trial Document (December 3, 1976)

CollectionPeople's Law Office — Hampton, Torture, FALN Year1976 PublishersPeople's Law Office

Afternoon transcript fragment from the Hampton v. Hanrahan civil trial, December 3, 1976.

Marion Mind Control Prison of Today

CollectionControl Units DateJanuary 1, 1976 PublishersCommittee to defend the Marion Brothers

History and conditions of Marion prison's Control Unit.

Osawatomie No. 4

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) DateJanuary 1, 1976 PublishersWeather Underground Organization

Contents: 3 WHERE WE STAND 7 CLASS STRUGGLE IN NY: The Truth Behind Default 13 FICTION: THE CLIFFS 14 FIREWORKS: John Brown 16 MO MORE BROKEN TREATIES 18 FIGHTING BACK 24 TOOLBOX: Surplus Value 25 YOUR JOB IS KILLING YOU 28 REVIEW: Labor Radical 30 EYE OF THE STORM: Armed Struggle* The SLA

Osawatomie Vol. 2-1

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) DateJanuary 1, 1976 PublishersWeather Underground Organization

Contents: 6 PUERTO RICO 12 REVIEW: AKWASASNE NOTES 16 FIREWORKS: THE WAR OF 1898 17 THE VOLUNTEER ARMY 21 TOOLBOX: SELF-DETERMINATION 22 ZIONISM IS RACISM 24 EYE OF THE STORM: ANGOLA 26 PAUL ROBESON 27 CHOU EN-LAI

Osawatomie Vol. 2-2

CollectionWeather Underground Organization (WUO) DateJanuary 1, 1976 PublishersWeather Underground Organization

Contents: 3 NEWS 6 i CUBA Si! 9 OUT OF WORK 12 FIREWORKS : RECONSTRUCTION 14 FREDERICK DOUGLAS1 4th OF JULY SPEECH 16 WHERE WE STAND 21 EYE OF THE STORM: BOSTON 23 200 YEARS OF DECEIT & DISGRACE 24 TOOLBOX: SUPEREXPLOITATION 25 FICTION: THE PEOPLE, THE PEOPLE

The Black Voice Vol. 6-2

CollectionVarious Black Liberation Movement Publications DateJanuary 1, 1976 PublishersUnited Black Workers

200 Years of Exploitation. Unity + Strength Equals Power. Articles include Program for the Coalition for a Good Contract; UAW Leaders Prepare Sell Out; UAW Bureaucrats don't understand what it means to work; What does July 4th Mean to a Slave?; ZANU Leads Armed Struggle for Socialist Revolution in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe); John Carlos Reflects on '68 Olympics Bla...

Weather Underground (Weathermen) — Part 1 of 6

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1976 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ file on the Weather Underground Organization. Surveillance/manhunt file underlying federal cases against WUO members including David Gilbert, Kathy Boudin, Judith Clark, and Marilyn Buck.

Weather Underground (Weathermen) — Part 6 of 6 (Final)

CollectionFBI Vault — Surveillance Files Year1976 PublishersFBI Vault

Final volume of WUO FBI file; includes Brink's-era references for Gilbert/Boudin prosecutions.