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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Assata: An Autobiography
Assata Shakur's 1987 autobiography (Lawrence Hill Books / Zed). Black Liberation Army member, former Black Panther Party member, convicted in 1977 of the May 2, 1973 killing of New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster on the New Jersey Turnpike after a confrontation that left Assata wounded and fellow BLA member Zayd Malik Shakur dead. Sentenced to life in N...
Right On! Black Community News Service — Vol. 2 No. 9 (May 1974)
Issue of Right On!, the Black Community News Service of the East Coast Black Panther Party — the paper of the faction aligned with Eldridge Cleaver after the Party's 1971 split, closely tied to the Black Liberation Army's prisoner-support networks. This issue carries the Symbionese Liberation Army's "The S.L.A. Speaks to the People," continued coverage of th...