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 10 records

Evening star — 1927-04-10 (Sacco-Vanzetti (death sentence))

CollectionChronicling America — Sacco-Vanzetti DateApril 10, 1927 PublishersEvening star

Day-after coverage of Sacco-Vanzetti death sentences

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Evening star — 1927-08-23 (Sacco-Vanzetti (execution))

CollectionChronicling America — Sacco-Vanzetti DateAugust 23, 1927 PublishersEvening star

Eve-of-execution front page

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Evening star — 1927-08-24 (Sacco-Vanzetti (execution))

CollectionChronicling America — Sacco-Vanzetti DateAugust 24, 1927 PublishersEvening star

Front-page execution coverage

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Sacco-Vanzetti

CollectionMovement Reference DateJanuary 1, 1927 AuthorsSacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee / contributors PublishersSacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee

Documentary collection on the case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti — Italian-American anarchist immigrants convicted of the 1920 South Braintree, Massachusetts payroll robbery and murders, tried in 1921 in what became the most internationally-publicized political-prisoner case of the early-20th-century United States. Despite a worldwide defense campa...

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