Subcollections

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  African People's Socialist Party (APSP)
  Formed in 1972, the African Peoples Socialist Party (APSP) is a revolutionary organization whose main goals are to sustain the Black Power Movement, defend the countless Africans locked up in US prisons, and develop relationships with Africans worldwide.
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  Afrikan Peoples Party
  After RAM disbanded in 1968, the organization continued to function under other names, one of them being the Afrikan Peoples Party.
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  Anarchist Panther
  A zine written and published by Ashanti Alston, ex-Black Panther and BLA prisoner of war. An engaging mix of news, analysis, and commentary, from an anarcho-black revolutionary perspective.
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  Angela Davis
  Angela Davis is an African-American political activist and scholar. She emerged as a prominent activist in the 1960s, as a leader of the Communist Party USA, and although never a member, had close relations with the Black Panther Party.
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  Assata Shakur
  Assata Shakur is an activist and icon of the Black Liberation Movement living in exile in Cuba. Assata was captured following a shootout in New Jersey in 1973. After being illegally held and tried for six years, she escaped in 1979.
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  Bashir Hameed
  Bashir Hameed (1940-2008) was a member of the Black Panther Party in New Jersey and the Black Liberation Army. Bashir became a COINTELPRO target in the 1970s and in April 1981, after three trails, was convicted of killing a New York City police officer.
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  Bayard Rustin
  Bayard Rustin (1912-1987) was an African-American activist involved in social movements for civil rights, socialism, non-violence and gay rights. Rustin was the chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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  BLA
  The Black Liberation Army (BLA) was an underground, black nationalist militant organization that operated in the United States from 1970 to 1981.
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  Black August Resistance
  Black August originated in the California penal system as a response to state repression and murder inside of California’s “correctional” facilities.The foundations of Black August were formulated following the assassination of George Jackson in 1971.
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  Black Citizen's Task Force
  Black Citizens Task Force (BCTF) was a grassroots organization committed to representing the concerns and challenges faced by citizens of the African-American community in Austin. BCTF published a newspaper throughout the 1980s, Grassroots Struggle.
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  Black Panther Party Archive Lists
  This collection contains a preliminary overview and description of the contents of The Huey P. Newton Foundation INC. Archives.
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  Black Panther Party Art, Photos
  This collection contains materials focused on the art of the Black Panther Party as well as rare photographs.
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  Black Panther Party Articles From the 1970s
  This collection contains materials written and published about the Black Panther Party during the 1970s.
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  Black Panther Party Community News Service
  The Black Panther Intercommunal News Service was a weekly periodical with national and international distribution. In its heyday, the Party sold several hundred thousand copies of the newspaper per week.
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  Black Panther Party Contemporary Articles and Newsletters
  This collection contains news and scholarly articles written about the Black Panther Party from 1980s-present. It also contains contemporary newsletters produced by BPP solidarity groups.
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  Black Panther Party general
  The Black Panther Party was an African-American revolutionary socialist organization that focused on community outreach and constant advocacy around issues of self-defense and police brutality.
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  Black Panther Party Local Chapters
  This collection contains materials from or pertaining to local chapters of the Black Panther Party.
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  Black Panther Party Women
  This collection features materials related to the role, activities and struggles of women in the Black Panther Party.
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  Black Power/Black Nation
  This collection contains materials related to Black Power and the concept of a Black Nation within the United States. This collection has materials from a wide variety of authors and organizations.
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  BPP_NoCal
  In September 1966, members of RAM chapter organized the Black Panther Party for Northern California in San Francisco, the first official chapter in California.
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  Chokwe Lumumba
  Chokwe Lumumba is a activist, attorney, and a co-founder and member of the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. He has represented a number of political prisoners and activists and well as been active in organizing for the Republic of New Afrika (RNA).
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  CORE
  Founded in 1942 the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) pioneered the use of nonviolent direct action in America’s civil rights struggle. CORE played a significant role in most aspects of the American civil rights movement.
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  Crossroad
  Crossroad is a non-sectarian newsletter produced by and for New Afrikan Prisoners of War and Political Prisoners intended to increase awareness and support for the release of captured combatants and the self-determinatio struggle of New Afrikans.
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  Dhoruba Bin Wahad
  Dhoruba Bin Wahad was a political prisoner active in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army. He served 19 years in prison as a result of a murder conviction facilitated by illegal COINTELPRO activities. Bin Wahad was released in 1995.
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  Donald Cox
  Donald Cox was a member of the Black Panther Party who fled to Algeria to escape a politically motivated murder conviction. He continued to remain active in the struggle for Black Liberation until his death in 2011.
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  Fred Hampton
  Fred Hampton was the Chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense and was one of the great young minds in the Black Liberation Movement. Fred Hampton was murdered by Chicago Police while asleep in his bed in 1969.
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  Fred Hampton Jr.
  Fred Hampton Jr. is a African-American political activist, son of Black Revolutionary icon Fred Hampton and chairman of the Prisoners of Conscience Committee (P.O.C.C.).
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  Garvin, Vicki
  Vicki Ama Garvin (1915-2007) was a Pan-Africanist and internationalist, who lived and worked in both Ghana and China during the revolutionary period of the 1960s.
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  George Jackson
  George Jackson was arrested in 1957 for stealing $70 from a gas station and was sentenced to 1 year to life. Jackson became a seminal figure in the Black Liberation movement and was murdered by prison guards inside San Quentin in 1971.
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  Geronimo Pratt
  Geronimo Ji-Jaga, affectionately known as "G", was a major figure in the Black Liberation Struggle. Geronimo was a member of the Black Panther Party and spent 27 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. Geronimo passed away in 2011.
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  Gibson/Justice Defense Committee
  In 1973, Earl Gibson and Lawrence Justice, two Black prisoners, were convicted by an all white jury in Marin County for killing a San Quentin guard and assaulting an inmate. The trial was characterized by inadequate evidence and eyewitness contradictions.
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  Harriet Tubman
  The Harriet Tubman aims include national consciousness, support for freedom fighters, a national liberation front, a genuine Communist Party, and independence for the Black Nation.
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  Huey Newton
  In 1966, Huey Newton and Bobby Seale founded the Black Panther Party for Self Defense in Oakland, California. Newton played a major role in the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Movement until his death in 1989.
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  It's About Time
  The "It’s About Time Committee" began in Sacramento, CA, in 1995, when former Black Panther Party (BPP) members got together to plan the 30th year reunion of the BPP.
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  Kwame Ture
  Kwame Ture (FKA Stokely Carmichael) helped coin the phrase "Black Power" and was the first leader of SNCC. Carmichael changed his name to Kwame Ture, to honor the African leaders Kwame Nkrumah and Sekou Touré. Ture lived in Guinea until his death in 1998.
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  League of Revolutionary Black Workers
  The League of Revolutionary Black Workers (LRBW) was formed in 1969 in Detroit, Michigan. Its members were concentrated in the auto and other industrial sectors and represented increasing militancy and political action by Black workers.
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  Lowndes County Freedom Organization
  The Lowndes County Freedom Organization (LCFO) was started in 1965 as a voter registration project under the direction of activist Stokely Carmichael. In 1965, Lowndes County in Alabama was 80% black but not a single black citizen was registered to vote.
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  Malcolm X
  Malcolm X, El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. Malcolm X drew from elements of Pan-Africanism and Black Nationalism to challenge white supremacy and American imperialism.
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  Martin Luther King Jr.
  Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) was a clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience.
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  Michael Tabor
  Michael Tabor (1946-2010) was a member of the Black Panther Party who was tried as part of the Panther 21 conspiracy case. During the trial Tabor fled to Algeria. Despite his ultimate acquittal on all charges, Tabor remained in Algeria until his death.
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  Movement Newspaper
  Produced by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee of California, this periodical was published from 1965 to 1970. This newspaper deals with national and international issues of anti-racism, anti-imperialism and social justice.
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  Mutulu Shakur
  Dr. Mutulu Shakur is a political prisoner, doctor of acupuncture and holistic medicine and member of the New Afrikan Independence Movement.
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  National Committee to Defend New Afrikan Freedom Fighters
  The National Committee to Defend New Afrikan Freedom Fighters was formed with the purpose to educate, organize and mobilize the Black Nation and its allies in an international campaign against the violations of New Afrikan (Black) Peoples Human Rights.
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  Negro Digest
  The Negro Digest (later renamed Black World) was a popular African-American magazine that aimed to cover positive stories about the African-American community.
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  New Afrika
  New Afrika is the spatial home of the Republic of New Afrika (RNA). It comprises the five Southern states of Louisana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina as well as the black majority counties adjacent to this area.
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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.
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  New Afrikan Prisoners Organization
  New Afrikan Prisoner Organization is a revolutionary nationalist cadre organization. Its members are imprisoned nationals of the colonized nation- New Afrika.
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  New York 3
  Using COINTELPRO and legal manipulation, The New York Three (Jalil Abdul Muntaqim (Anthony Bottom), Albert Nuh Washington and Herman Bell) were incarcerated for the murder of NYC policemen in 1971.
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  Non-Violent Action Committee
  Founded in Los Angles in the Spring of 1964, The NVAC began as the action faction of the local CORE chapter but soon developed into an autonomous civil rights organization focusing on urban renewal, fair housing and employment and poverty reduction.
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  Panther 21
  In April 1969, 21 members of the Black Panther Party in New York City were charged with conspiracy to kill several police officers and to destroy a number of buildings. After two years in the courts, all of the defendants were acquitted.
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  Panther Reunion
  This collection contains materials pertaining to commemorating various anniversaries of the founding of the Black Panther Party.
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  Paul Robeson
  Paul Robeson was an African-American singer, actor, lawyer, social activist and athlete. Robeson was active in Pan-African and Communist organizing and subsequently was a target of government repression during McCarthyism.
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  Popeye Jackson
  While incarcerated at San Quentin, Popeye Jackson held a leadership position in the United Prisoners Union. He was murdered in 1975 in San Francisco.
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  Republic of New Afrika
  The Republic of New Afrika is a social movement seeking to empower African Americans through the creation of an independent African-American majority country, slave reparations and a referendum on African-Americans' citizenship.
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  Revolutionary Action Movement RAM
  The Revolutionary Action Movement was founded in 1963 by young activists led by Max Stanford (Muhammad Ahmad). RAM was a semi-clandestine organization and articulated a revolutionary program for Blacks that fused Black Nationalism with Marxism-Leninism.
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  Robert F. Williams!
  Robert Franklin Williams was a leading member of the struggle for black liberation, internationalist and staunch supporter of self-defense. After being forced to flee North Carolina, he lived in Cuba and China before returning to America.
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  Safiya Bukhari
  A member of the Black Panther Party and the BLA, Safiya Bukhari was imprisoned for nine years. Released in 1983, she went on to co-found the New York Free Mumia Abu-Jamal Coalition and other organizations advocating for the release of political prisoners.
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  SCLC
  The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is an American civil rights organization founded in 1957. SCLC was closely associated with its first president, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and played a large role in the American Civil Rights Movement.
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  SNCC
  The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was a student led grassroots civil rights organization founded in 1960. SNCC played a major role in many civil rights actions but is best known for its voter registration projects in the deep South.
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  Soledad Brothers
  The Soledad Brothers (George Jackson, Fleeta Drumgo and John Clutchette) were charged with the murder of white prison guard at California's Soledad Prison on January 16, 1970.
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  Soulbook
  Soulbook is a periodical that features essays, poems, reflections, cartoons, and other artistic works intended to further the cause of the Black Liberation Movement. Topics include jazz, poetry, economics and anti-imperialism.
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  Student Voice
  The Student Voice was a civil rights era periodical.
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  Sundiata Acoli
  Sundiata Acoli is a New Afrikan prisoner of war. Active in struggles for Black Liberation since the mid 1960s, Acoli was captured after a shootout in New Jersey in 1973 and convicted in the death of a state trooper. Sundiata is still incarcerated today.
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  The Black Voice
  The Black Voice is the information arm of the United Black Workers, an organization of workers at the Ford Mahwah Assembly Plantation in Mahwah, New Jersey. The Black Voice was started in 1970 with the purpose to help educate, expose, inform and agitate.
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  The Case of Ed Poindexter and David L. Rice
  David Rice (now known as Mondo we Langa) and Edward Poindexter were charged and convicted of the murder of a Omaha Police Officer in 1970 . Poindexter and Rice were members of the Black Panther Party and were targeted by COINTELPRO. Both remain in prison.
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  The Commemorator
  Published by the Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther Party.
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  Tyrone Guyton
  Fourteen-year-old Tyrone Guyton was killed on November 1, 1973, by three officers from the Emeryville, California Police Department in what many black activists and community members considered a racist murder.
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  Urban Rebellions
  This collection contains materials pertaining to the numerous rebellions that erupted in urban centers across America in the mid and late 1960s.
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  Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
  Pamphlets, ephemera, periodicals, writings and poetry pertaining to the Black Liberation Movement. Contains materials produced by Black Liberation Army, The Republic of New Afrika, revolutionary Pan-African organizations and Black Marxists.
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  Voices from the South
  This collection is comprised of materials from the African-American Civil Rights Movement from 1955-1968. This collection features materials pertaining to Freedom Schools, The Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party and the Selma to Montgomery March.
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  Black Arts
  This collection has diverse contents related to progressive artistic creations by African Americans. The contents primarily include poetry and speeches and/or interviews with Black artists, musicians and authors.
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  Dessie Woods
  Dessie Woods’ became internationally known after she was sentenced to 22 years in prison for killing a white man in Georgia with his own gun when he tried to rape her. A large-scale national and international solidarity movement developed around her case.
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  Cleaver, Eldridge
  Eldridge Cleaver was a writer and political activist who became a prominent leader of the Black Panther Party, holding the titles of Minister of Information and Head of the International Section of the Panthers while in exile in Cuba and Algeria.