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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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A Report From Inside Attica

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateSeptember 17, 1971 PublishersPrisoners Solidarity Committee

A special 8 paged newsletter on Attica. Contents include: Unity and Courage vs. Rockefeller's Machine Guns; Report from inside Attica; Prisoners' Relatives Tell Their Story; Protests over Massacre Erupt in Many Cities; For These Demands They Died

Attica Since the Massacre

CollectionAttica Prison Rebellion DateSeptember 30, 1971 PublishersPrisoner Solidarity Committee

Second 8-page newsletter on Attica. Attica executions, terror, continue; Oppressed bury their Attica Dead; Prison Rebellions erupt nationwide; Attica Liberation Faction Statement; Hassan of Auburn Six Speaks; Rockefeller's Other Massacre (Ludlow Colorado, 1914); Bail Fund Women Aid Imprisoned Sisters; Women Prisoners rebel in West Virginia; more.

Berkeley Tribe Vol. 6 No. 5 (1971) — Grand Jury Coverage

CollectionGrand Jury / FBI Repression DateJanuary 1, 1971 AuthorsTom Miller PublishersRed Mountain Tribe

Issue of Berkeley Tribe (Vol. 6, No. 5, 1971) containing a Tom Miller article on grand juries.

Black Panther Intercommunal News Service (1971)

CollectionFreedom Archives Year1971 AuthorsBlack Panther Party PublishersFreedom Archives

Reprint of the Black Panther Party newspaper, 1971.

CCPO — Press Release on Violence at San Quentin (August 24, 1971)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners DateAugust 24, 1971 PublishersCoordinating Council of Prisoner Organizations

CCPO press release of August 24, 1971, responding to the killing of George Jackson at San Quentin three days earlier.

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ counterintelligence file targeting 'Black Nationalist - Hate Groups' under COINTELPRO. Master file documenting FBI's operations against the Black Panther Party, RAM, Republic of New Afrika, SCLC, SNCC, and individuals including Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael, Eldridge Cleaver, and Huey Newton.

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 08

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file Part 8, including memoranda authorizing Director-level disruption ops against Black Panther figures who became political prisoners (Geronimo Pratt, Huey Newton, Panther 21).

COINTELPRO Black Extremists — Part 10

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

Continued FBI COINTELPRO Black Extremists file, mid-program operations. Documents FBI dirty-tricks campaigns referenced in later wrongful-conviction litigation for Geronimo Pratt and Dhoruba bin Wahad.

COINTELPRO New Left HQ — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI Headquarters file on the COINTELPRO program against the New Left. Surveillance/disruption file underlying federal cases against SDS, the Weather Underground, and the Chicago 8.

COINTELPRO Puerto Rican Groups — Part 1 of 11

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file on 'Groups Seeking Independence for Puerto Rico.' Surveillance file underlying prosecutions of Nationalist Party members and FALN/Macheteros prisoners including Oscar López Rivera.

COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Part 01 of 05

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI HQ COINTELPRO file targeting the Socialist Workers Party. Documents ten years of warrantless surveillance the SWP successfully sued the FBI over (Socialist Workers v. Attorney General, 1986).

COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Part 05 (Final)

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

Final volume of the COINTELPRO-SWP HQ file. Closing memoranda on the SWP disruption program.

COINTELPRO White Hate Groups — Part 01

CollectionFBI Vault — COINTELPRO Year1971 PublishersFBI Vault

FBI COINTELPRO file on KKK and white-supremacist groups. Includes informant relationships with klansmen later prosecuted in the Viola Liuzzo and civil rights worker murders.

Conspiracy Against Angela Exposed

CollectionAngela Davis DateJanuary 1, 1971 PublishersFreedom Archives

Flyer issued by the L.A. Committee to Free Angela Davis, which comments on the excessive expense of time and government money in the pursuit of putting together a case to convict Angela Davis of murder, kidnapping, and conspiracy. Outlines the prosecutor's failure to prove his case.

Diagram of San Quentin Adjustment Center (1971)

CollectionPolitical Prisoners Year1971 PublishersSan Quentin Six Defense Committee

1971 floorplan of the San Quentin Adjustment Center showing cell locations and officer positions, used in the San Quentin Six defense.

Eldridge Cleaver From Algiers

CollectionEldridge Cleaver DateJanuary 12, 1971 PublishersBPP

Position on drug culture in U.S. as it relates to carrying out the revolutionary struggle

FBI COINTELPRO Puerto Rico — Consolidated

CollectionFBI FOIA — Consolidated Year1971 PublishersFBI (Internet Archive FOIA release)

Consolidated COINTELPRO Puerto Rico HQ file. Surveillance file underlying Nationalist Party and FALN prosecutions (Lolita Lebrón, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Oscar López Rivera).

FBI COINTELPRO Socialist Workers Party — Consolidated

CollectionFBI FOIA — Consolidated Year1971 PublishersFBI (Internet Archive FOIA release)

Consolidated FBI COINTELPRO-SWP file. Documents ten years of warrantless FBI surveillance/disruption of the SWP later ruled illegal in federal court.

FBI COINTELPRO — Black Extremism File, Part 1

CollectionInternet Archive Year1971 AuthorsFederal Bureau of Investigation PublishersInternet Archive

Original FBI file on COINTELPRO operations targeting Black nationalist organizations, 1967–1971.

FBI COINTELPRO — New Left File, Part 1

CollectionInternet Archive Year1971 AuthorsFederal Bureau of Investigation PublishersInternet Archive

Original FBI file on COINTELPRO operations targeting the New Left, 1968–1971.

FBI COINTELPRO — TWWA Memorandum (April 12, 1971)

CollectionFBI FOIA — COINTELPRO TWWA DateApril 12, 1971 AuthorsFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) PublishersFBI / FOIA release

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: April 1...

FBI COINTELPRO — TWWA Memorandum (April 28, 1971)

CollectionFBI FOIA — COINTELPRO TWWA DateApril 28, 1971 AuthorsFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) PublishersFBI / FOIA release

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: April 2...

FBI COINTELPRO — TWWA Memorandum (April 28, 1971)

CollectionFBI FOIA — COINTELPRO TWWA DateApril 28, 1971 AuthorsFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) PublishersFBI / FOIA release

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: April 2...

FBI COINTELPRO — TWWA Memorandum (April 30, 1971)

CollectionFBI FOIA — COINTELPRO TWWA DateApril 30, 1971 AuthorsFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) PublishersFBI / FOIA release

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: April 3...

FBI COINTELPRO — TWWA Memorandum (February 25, 1971)

CollectionFBI FOIA — COINTELPRO TWWA DateFebruary 25, 1971 AuthorsFederal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) PublishersFBI / FOIA release

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: Februar...