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New Afrikan People's Organization

The New Afrikan People's Organization was an organization that was committed to building a black separatist state in the deep South. 

Documents

Support the NAPO Centers for Black Survival Support the NAPO Centers for Black Survival
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationFormat: PamphletCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
A pamphlet about day to day survival programs at the Centers already established in Los Angeles, Detroit, and the newest center in Atlanta.
Malcolm X Tribute Event - Part 1 Malcolm X Tribute Event - Part 1
Date: 2/21/1986Call Number: KP 470Format: CassetteCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Speeches and cultural performances at tribute event for Malcolm X, and for Mutulu Shakur, by New Afrikan People's Organization, including main speech by Chokwe Lumumba.
Malcolm X Tribute Event - Part 2 Malcolm X Tribute Event - Part 2
Date: 2/21/1986Call Number: KP 471Format: CassetteCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Speeches and cultural performances at tribute event for Malcolm X, and for Mutulu Shakur, by New Afrikan People's Organization, including main speech by Chokwe Lumumba.
New African Program New African Program
Date: 10/20/1982Call Number: KP 520Format: Cass A & BCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
This tape features a panel held on October 20th, 1982, as part of a week wide program for building support for African Freedom Fighters. Ahmed Obafemi, member and one of the leaders of NAPO (New Afrikan People’s Organization), opens the panel discussion by introducing other panel members, many of whom have been political prisoners. George Edward Tait presents two poems, “War in America” and “The Choice”, which focus on his life as an African American and how they are amidst a war, a war into which they were born. Ahmed Obafemi follows this with his demand that those imprisoned fighting for Black Liberation are acknowledged by international law as “prisoners of war/political prisoners.” Finally, Ben Chambers urges supporters of African Freedom Fighters to take up organizing at a local level.
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationYear: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 6-2 October-NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Cover Story: Whose Streets? The New Afrikan Masses Stop the Klan
New Afrikan People's Organization New Afrikan People's Organization
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationFormat: PamphletCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Founding Statement; Principles & Programme of Action of the New Afrikan People's Organization; On NAPO's Revolutionary Mission; Free Mutulu Shakur;
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationYear: 1992Volume Number: June/July 1992Format: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Cover Story: The Rebellion of Spring: The Handwriting is on the Wall. Inside: The New Afrikan People's Organization Organizes the People to Take a Stand!!!; Message from the Chairman: The New Afrikan Revolution and Malcolm X; Self-Determination: A Human Right in Jackson, Mississippi; Grassroots Convention Underway; Atlanta Sets it Off!; Tasks Ahead for Organizing in the South; Columbus, cultural, Imperialism, and the New Afrikan Nation; The New Afrikan Uprising; New Afrikan Women Speak; The Rebellion of Spring: The Chickens (Finally) Came Home to Roost; History is a Weapon!: Righting the Wrong; New Afrikan Analysis: On Captured Citizens, Political Prisoners, and Prisoners of War: A New Afrikan Perspective; A Call to Justice Loving People Worldwide: Help Save Mumia Abu-Jamal!!!; To the Supporters of "G": A Letter from the International Campaign to Free Geronimo; Updates: Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War; From Across the Empire: News Briefs;
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationYear: 1989Volume Number: Vol. 5-1 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
George Bush is not Down With Us!; Principles & Programme of Action of the New Afrikan People's Organization; What is NAPO?; US Violations Continue!; New South! Old Problems! Mississippi is still burning!; Blacks Confront Old South Lawlessness; The Assassination of Malcolm X; A Tribute to Our Greatest Martyr; We Must Not Engage in War Against Ourselves!; Who Killed Malcolm X? New Afrikan Delegation Attends Women's Meet; A Look at the "Legal Arm of the Black Revolution"; Contempt Convictions Overturned Against NCBL Attorneys Evelyn and Lumumba in Circuit Court; Kenyatta Speaks on Youth; Government Charges White Revolutionaries in Capital Bombing; Support Our Mandela's
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationVolume Number: Vol. 4-1 January/FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Cover Stories: Howard Beach White Racist Mob Kill Black Man; Atlanta Missing and Murdered Children's Case KKK Implicated.
By Any Means Necessary By Any Means Necessary
Publisher: New Afrikan People's OrganizationVolume Number: Vol. 4-2 September/OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Afrikan People's Organization
Cover Story: Garvey and Biko Live in the Peoples Struggle Long Live the Rising Star of Afrikan Independence and Socialism. Inside: Principles & Programme of Action of the New Afrikan People's Organization; History is a Weapon!; New Afrikans Face Setback in White Racist Battle Creek Courts; Dope is death; Wanted: Revolutionary Leadership Needed for New Afrikan Youth; On New Afrikan Women and Violence; The Lancer controversy and Environmental Racism; New Afrikans Must Exercise Our Human Right to Self-Defense!; Dennis Rodman & Isiah Thomas Confront the Myth of the Great White Hope; Why We Use New Afrikan; Why We Say "Free The Land!"; Napo Honors and carried on the Legacy of Malcolm X; The Namibian Story; New Afrikan Freedom Fighter; Operation Eagle Claw; This Will be a Free The Land Case!