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Collection: Attica

Frank "Big Black" Smith and L.D. Barkley, who proclaimed the Attica Manifesto, and Elizabeth Fink, an attorney for the Attica Brothers. Barkley was killed in the massacre. Smith survived mass torture to help lead the eventually successful legal battle on behalf of the Attica Brothers.

Black Panther Party Chairman Fred Hampton Speaks at University of Chicago

Collection: Fred Hampton Jr.

Taken from speech at University of Chicago, March 1969. Fred Hampton about the U.S. prison system and the fight for equal rights among people of color

Nelson Mandela Released

Collection: African liberation movements

Short excerpt from speech by Nelson Mandela, former President of South Africa, upon his release from Victor Verster Prison after 27 years of incarceration.

"Dear Women"; Open House at the camp and Women's Unit federal correctional Institution, Marianna, Florida, June 21-24, 1988; Federal Prison Camp, Marianna, Florida

Authors: Jan Susler, Sue SturtzCollection: Marianna Penitentiary

A series of descriptions and accounts on the Marianna FCI from various authors before its opening

ATTICA: "We are men. We are not beasts and will not be driven as such"

Publisher: Pontiac Prisoners Support CoalitionCollection: Attica

Geronimo Ji Jaga on Black Liberation

Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Geronimo Pratt

Geronimo Ji Jaga discusses SNCC organizing throughout the country, working with the Deacons for Defense and the Black Panthers. G also discusses growing up in the Black Nation and fighting the Klan.

Geronimo Ji Jaga from Cointelpro 101

Publisher: Freedom ArchivesCollection: Cointelpro

Interviews with Geronimo Ji Jaga Pratt, Catherine Campbell and others on the Federal Government's targeting of Pratt for his involvement with he Black Panther Party.