Records
Demands of the Sisters Inside
A list of grievances and demands addressed to the concerned people of New York relating to medical care, prison food, pests and vermin, physical abuse, and more. It includes a poem by a Vietnamese woman prisoner and a quote by Ho Chi Minh.
FBI COINTELPRO — TWWA Letter (December 11, 1970)
Internal FBI document from the COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO surveillance file on the Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA), the multiracial socialist-feminist organization that grew out of SNCC's Black Women's Liberation Committee and was active 1970-1980. Released under FOIA and mirrored from the Internet Archive item twwa_cointelpro. Document date: Decembe...
FBI COINTELPRO — TWWA Memorandum (December 31, 1970)
Internal FBI document from the COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO surveillance file on the Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA), the multiracial socialist-feminist organization that grew out of SNCC's Black Women's Liberation Committee and was active 1970-1980. Released under FOIA and mirrored from the Internet Archive item twwa_cointelpro. Document date: Decembe...
FBI COINTELPRO — TWWA Triple Jeopardy newspaper scan (undated)
Internal FBI document from the COINTELPRO and post-COINTELPRO surveillance file on the Third World Women's Alliance (TWWA), the multiracial socialist-feminist organization that grew out of SNCC's Black Women's Liberation Committee and was active 1970-1980. Released under FOIA and mirrored from the Internet Archive item twwa_cointelpro. Document date: undated...
FBI File on the Black Panther Party (NC Subfile 105-165706)
Fifteen-section FBI HQ subfile on BPP activity in North Carolina. Same BPP surveillance series as the Vault entries above.
Folsom Prisoners Manifesto of Demands
Anti-repression platform issued from the 1970 Folsom Prison strike — a foundational text of 1970s prison-organizing demands.
From the Underground
Personal account of Daniel Berrigan's dissent and his viewpoint on the ethics of compliance with oppressors.
Inner-City Voice [JUne 1970]
Coverage of the death of reactionary labor leader Walter Reuther, US invasion of Cambodia, Newsbriefs, Revolt in Trinidad, Coverage of Kent State and Jackson State massacres, A Call to Be: Issued by the Executive Committee of the Black Economic Development Conference, Inc. at the first anniversary of the issuing of The Black Manifesto, UF Exploits Black Work...
Medical Conditions and Treatment of Prisoners on O and X Wings, Soledad (1970)
Compilation of letters from prisoners describing medical neglect and abuse on the O and X wings of the Correctional Training Facility at Soledad.
Negro Digest: The Black University Part III
This issue of Negro Digest begins with several articles in response to a previously published article by Professor Vincent Harding about the marginalization of, and possibilities for, Black academics and students in predominantly white universities. An opening statement provides context for the debate, followed by two contributor essays responding to Profess...
New African Ujamaa: The Economics of the Republic of New Africa
Declaration of Economic Intent: Basic Principles, Prestige and Leisure Activity, Imperatives for Success, Start Money for a New Community, The Needs, The Sources, Making the Economy Run.
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.
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service — Vol. 4 No. 3 (July 25, 1970)
Issue of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense — Volume 4, Number 3, published July 25, 1970. Part of NPPC's complete-as-available 1967-1970 BPP newspaper run mirrored from the Internet Archive uploads of jadelin.mcleod. The Black Panther was the largest-circulation U.S. Black radi...
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service — Vol. 4 No. 5 (January 3, 1970)
Issue of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense — Volume 4, Number 5, published January 3, 1970. Part of NPPC's complete-as-available 1967-1970 BPP newspaper run mirrored from the Internet Archive uploads of jadelin.mcleod. The Black Panther was the largest-circulation U.S. Black ra...
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service — Vol. 4 No. 6 (January 10, 1970)
Issue of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense — Volume 4, Number 6, published January 10, 1970. Part of NPPC's complete-as-available 1967-1970 BPP newspaper run mirrored from the Internet Archive uploads of jadelin.mcleod. The Black Panther was the largest-circulation U.S. Black r...
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service — Vol. 4 No. 7 (January 17, 1970)
Issue of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense — Volume 4, Number 7, published January 17, 1970. Part of NPPC's complete-as-available 1967-1970 BPP newspaper run mirrored from the Internet Archive uploads of jadelin.mcleod. The Black Panther was the largest-circulation U.S. Black r...
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service — Vol. 4 No. 8 (January 24, 1970)
Issue of The Black Panther: Black Community News Service, the official newspaper of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense — Volume 4, Number 8, published January 24, 1970. Part of NPPC's complete-as-available 1967-1970 BPP newspaper run mirrored from the Internet Archive uploads of jadelin.mcleod. The Black Panther was the largest-circulation U.S. Black r...
The Folsom Prisoners Manifesto of Demands and Anti-Oppression Platform (November 1970)
Foundational 31-point manifesto issued during the November 1970 Folsom Prison strike, articulating prisoner demands and conditions.
The Soledad Brothers — Berkeley Tribe Centerfold (July 1970)
July 1970 Berkeley Tribe pullout / centerfold on the Soledad Brothers case — George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo, and John Clutchette, charged with the January 1970 retaliatory killing of Soledad State Prison guard John Mills after Mills' colleagues had shot and killed three Black prisoners (Nolen, Edwards, Miller) in the prison yard a few days earlier.
Trial of the Soledad Three — Village Voice (June 18, 1970)
Paul Cowan's June 18, 1970 Village Voice article examining the political context of the Soledad Brothers trial in Salinas, California.