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
Deportation: Doak Wants You!
William Z. Foster article denouncing the 1932 deportation drive under Secretary of Labor William Doak, which targeted foreign-born workers and Communist labor organizers -- among them National Miners Union general secretary Frank Borich. Published in the Labor Defender, the magazine of the International Labor Defense.
Evening star — 1932-11-07 (Scottsboro Boys (Powell v. Alabama))
Front-page coverage of Powell v. Alabama Supreme Court ruling
Repealing Certain Provisions of Espionage Act — H. Rept. 870, 72d Cong.
House report on a bill to repeal Espionage Act sections under which WWI radicals were convicted.
The Washington times — 1932-11-07 (Scottsboro Boys (Powell v. Alabama))
Front-page Powell v. Alabama Supreme Court reversal
The daily worker — 1932-11-08 (Scottsboro Boys (Powell v. Alabama))
Daily Worker coverage of the Scottsboro Supreme Court victory