Introduction Movements Eras Organizations Index Contributions
About Movements
Black Lives Matter Environmental Justice Black Liberation Indigenous Sovereignty Puerto Rican Independence Anti-Nuclear Resistance Anti-War Resistance Environmental & Animal Liberation Anti-Fascism Palestine Solidarity Labor & Industrial Unionism Prison Abolition LGBTQ+ Liberation
MOVEMENTS
The political prisoners documented in this database came out of organized social movements. From abolitionism in the 1850s to Palestine solidarity in the 2020s, the United States has consistently used its criminal-legal system to neutralize the people who built and led those movements. Browse by movement to see how repression has tracked organizing across two centuries.