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Agents of Repression: The FBI's Secret Wars Against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement
Foundational 1988 movement history by Ward Churchill and Jim Vander Wall (South End Press). Documents the FBI's COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO operations against the Black Panther Party and the American Indian Movement, drawing on Bureau records released under FOIA, court records, and movement testimony. Part I covers the FBI as political police, the COINTEL...
Anarchism and the Black Revolution
Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin's foundational text linking anarchism with Black liberation, written and revised across the late 1970s and 1980s while Ervin was a Black Panther Party-aligned political prisoner in U.S. federal custody following his hijacking conviction. Originally circulated as a movement pamphlet and republished in expanded book form (most recently by...
Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur's 1987 autobiography (Lawrence Hill Books / Zed). Black Liberation Army member, former Black Panther Party member, convicted in 1977 of the May 2, 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike after a confrontation that left Assata wounded and fellow BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur dead. Sentenced to life in N...
Black Panther Intercommunal News Service (1971)
Reprint of the Black Panther Party newspaper, 1971.
Black Panther Party 35th Anniversary & Reunion Conference (poster)
A poster for the Black Panther Party 35th Anniversary & Reunion Conference in Washington, D.C., April 18–20, 2002, organized by the It's About Time Committee on the theme "COINTELPRO & Political Prisoners." It advertises workshops, a banquet, film and photo/art exhibits, and speakers; is illustrated with eight photographs; and frames the gathering around the...
Captive Nation: Black Prison Organizing in the Civil Rights Era — Dan Berger (2014)
Dan Berger's history of Black prison organizing from the 1950s through the 1980s — the political base of the political-prisoner support tradition that PFOC's *Breakthrough* magazine covered most consistently. Includes substantial treatment of the BLA, the RNA, the Black Panther Party prisoner support work, and the Attica uprising.
Eldridge Cleaver Petition Campaign
An urgent information sheet and petition demanding the release of Black Panther Party Minister of Information Eldridge Cleaver, whose parole was revoked without a hearing after the April 6, 1968 Oakland police shootout that killed Bobby Hutton and wounded Cleaver. It gives background on the case and instructions for gathering signatures; the verso carries th...
George Jackson / Jonathan Jackson — Movement Documents
Biographical and movement documents on George Jackson and his brother Jonathan Jackson.
Geronimo Pratt Frame-Up Exposed by Ron Dellums
Congressional intervention by Rep. Ron Dellums exposing the frame-up of Geronimo Pratt.
Hampton COINTELPRO Booklet
Documentary booklet on the FBI COINTELPRO program's role in the killing of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.
Hampton Trial Document (December 3, 1976)
Afternoon transcript fragment from the Hampton v. Hanrahan civil trial, December 3, 1976.
Hampton v. Hanrahan — 7th Circuit Brief
Federal appellate brief in the civil-rights case brought by survivors and the families of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark against Chicago authorities.
If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance
Angela Davis's foundational essay collection on political prisoners, prisons, and Black liberation.
Let Freedom Ring: A Collection of Documents from the Movements to Free U.S. Political Prisoners
900+ page omnibus edited by Matt Meyer and published by PM Press / Kersplebedeb in 2008, with a foreword by Adolfo Pérez Esquivel and an afterword by Ashanti Alston. The single most comprehensive published anthology of statements, letters, prison writings, support-committee documents, and movement-historical essays on U.S. political prisoners — covering the...
Revolutionary Suicide
Huey P. Newton's 1973 autobiography (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), written in part from inside the Alameda County Jail. Co-founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense (Oakland, October 1966), Newton wrote the book during and after his 1968–1970 imprisonment on charges arising from the October 28, 1967 shooting that killed Oakland police officer John Fr...
Right On! Black Community News Service — Vol. 2 No. 9 (May 1974)
Issue of Right On!, the Black Community News Service of the East Coast Black Panther Party — the paper of the faction aligned with Eldridge Cleaver after the Party's 1971 split, closely tied to the Black Liberation Army's prisoner-support networks. This issue carries the Symbionese Liberation Army's "The S.L.A. Speaks to the People," continued coverage of th...
Rules of the Black Panther Party
Central Committee rules document of the Black Panther Party.
Search and Destroy: Fred Hampton/Mark Clark Commission Report
1970 commission report on the police assassination of Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton and Mark Clark in Chicago, December 4, 1969.
Seize the Time, Vol. 1 No. 2 (June 1974)
Black Panther Party newspaper issue with George Jackson focus.
The Black Panther Newspaper, 1967–1968 (Internet Archive collection — Vols. 1–2, 18 issues)
Internet Archive bulk collection mirroring eighteen issues of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service covering 1967 and 1968 — the BPP newspaper's foundational period. Includes the complete six-issue run of Volume 1 (April–December 1967) and twelve of the fifteen Volume 2 issues from 1968. The 1967–1968 issues document the Party's transition from a l...
The Black Panther Newspaper, 1967–1970 (Internet Archive — 66-issue national publication run)
Internet Archive's 66-issue digitization of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service spanning the BPP newspaper's full national publication run from the founding April 25, 1967 issue through the 1970 zenith — including the complete surviving 1969 cohort (47 issues), the bulk of 1968 (12 issues), the founding 1967 issue, and the 1970 transition months....
The Black Panther Newspaper, 1971–1980 (Marxists Internet Archive — ~349 issues, the post-1970 run)
Marxists Internet Archive's digitization of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service / Intercommunal News Service across 1971–1980 — roughly 349 issues spanning Volume 5 through the paper's final volumes, the entire run after the 1967–1970 collection that anchors this archive. These issues document the Party's second decade: the 1971 split between Hue...
The Black Panther — Vol. 10 No. 1 (May 19, 1973)
Issue of The Black Panther, the newspaper of the Black Panther Party (Vol. 10 No. 1), published 1973-05-19. Part of the paper's 1971-1980 national run; digitized by the Marxists Internet Archive and linked here.
The Black Panther — Vol. 10 No. 10 (Jul 21, 1973)
Issue of The Black Panther, the newspaper of the Black Panther Party (Vol. 10 No. 10), published 1973-07-21. Part of the paper's 1971-1980 national run; digitized by the Marxists Internet Archive and linked here.