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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August Spies' Autobiography (1887)
Autobiography of August Spies — German-American anarchist, labor organizer, editor of the Chicago Arbeiter-Zeitung, and one of the Haymarket Martyrs hanged by the State of Illinois on November 11, 1887 for the May 4, 1886 Haymarket Affair bombing. Spies wrote the autobiography in his cell at the Cook County jail in 1887 prior to his execution, alongside the...
New-York tribune — 1887-11-11 (Haymarket Affair (executions))
Execution-day coverage of the Haymarket anarchists
Sacramento daily record-union — 1887-11-12 (Haymarket Affair (executions))
Day-after coverage of the Haymarket executions
Springfield daily republic — 1887-11-11 (Haymarket Affair (executions))
Front-page execution coverage of Spies, Parsons, Fischer, Engel
The Salt Lake herald — 1887-11-11 (Haymarket Affair (executions))
Front-page report on the Haymarket hangings