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Death row, U.S.A. / LDF.

New York, N.Y. : NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1980?-

1980-present

4 items

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FormatTextCall numberJFM 95-517 Spr. 1992- FaLL 1994Item locationOffsite
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FormatTextCall numberSc+ Ser.-N .D415 Oct. 1, 1985-Oct. 1, 1986Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberSc+ Ser.-N .D415 Feb 20, 1983-win 1991Item locationOffsite

Hymn to the rising sun : a drama in one act / by Paul Green.

New York : S. French, 1963.

1963

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc Micro F-3067Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Mental health and black offenders / Charles E. Owens.

Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, c1980.

1980

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc E 80-192Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Families of Black prisoners : survival and progress / L. Alex Swan.

Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall ; Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Pub. Co., [1981]

1981

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberJLE 81-1782Item locationOffsite

Slow coming dark : interviews on death row / Doug Magee.

New York : Pilgrim Press, c1980.

1980

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 81-160Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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American Saturday / Clark Howard.

New York, N.Y. : R. Marek Publishers, c1981.

1981

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 81-288Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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American prisoners and ex-prisoners, their writings : an annotated bibliography of published works, 1798-1981 / H. Bruce Franklin.

Westport, Conn. : L. Hill, c1982.

1982

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc D 84-571Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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House of slammers : a novel / by Nathan C. Heard.

New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1983.

1983

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 84-621Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 83-5742Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The jail : managing the underclass in American society / John Irwin.

Berkeley : University of California Press, c1985.

1985

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 96-1236Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberJLD 85-3704Item locationOffsite

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Kaleidoscope. The word of Allah behind bars [videorecording] / KETV, Omaha ; written and produced by Bettie Shapiro.

Omaha, Neb. : KETV, 1979-06-30.

1979

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-965Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Ethnic self-esteem in Black prison inmates and Black successful residents of New York State [microform] / by Nelson Henry.

1982.

1982

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-5198Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The development of a curriculum for Black prisoners [microform] / by Hayward Nathan Williams.

1978.

1978

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-4563Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Convict catechism [microform]! Read to your neighbor.

[n. p., Independent Democratic Committee of Georgia, 1878?]

1878

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-4854Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberIEC 75-2450Item locationSchwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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Case studies of the impact of separation due to incarceration on Black families [microform] / by Alice P. Green.

1982.

1982

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-5505Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Return me to my mind [microform] : poetry / by Stanley Eldridge.

New York, N.Y. : Fortune Society, c1970.

1970

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro F-11594Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Ben Chavis portrait collection [graphic].

<1970?-1989?>

1970-1989

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Chavis, BenItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Joanne Little portrait collection [graphic] / United Press International.

<1974.>

1974

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatStill imageCall numberSc Photo Little, JoanneItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Photographs & Prints.

Love / John A. Williams ; [wood engraving by Gaylord Schanilec].

Derry, N.H. ; Ridgewood, N.J. : Babcock & Koontz, c1988.

1988

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall number*KP (Coffee) 92-209Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328.

Terrence Johnson [videorecording] : justice served, justice denied? / WHMM-TV, Washington, D.C. ; producer, Gia Hinton ; director, Mary Lawrence.

United States : WHMM-TV, 1990-11.

1990

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-999 Part BItem locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual DVD-999 Part AItem locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Joseph Beam papers, 1967-1990.

1967-1990

21 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 455 Box 21Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 455 Box 20Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 455 Box 19Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Life sentences : rage and survival behind bars / [edited] by Wilbert Rideau and Ron Wikberg.

New York, NY : Times Books, c1992.

1992

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc E 92-374Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Narrative of privations and sufferings of United States officers & soldiers while prisoners of war in the hands of the rebel authorities : being the report of a commission of inquiry, appointed by the United States Sanitary Commission : with an appendix, containing the testimony.

Boston : Office of Littell's living Age, [1864]

1864

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc Rare 973.7-U (United States Sanitary Comm. Narrative of privations)Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Up from the walking dead : the Charles McGregor story / written by Sharon Sopher as told by Charles McGregor.

Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1978.

1978

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc D 93-847Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Brokered justice : race, politics, and Mississippi prisons, 1798-1992 / William Banks Taylor.

Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1993.

1993

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc E 94-492Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Biennial report to the General Assembly of Virginia [microform].

Hanover, Va., The Association.

1901-19

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall number*ZAN-11929 no. 1 - 4 Item locationSchwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315

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Reports of the acting superintendent and executive committee for the year ending ... [microform] / Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia.

Richmond : H.T. Ezekiel, [19--?]-

1-19

1 item

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FormatTextCall number*ZAN-11930 no. 1 - 4Item locationSchwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315

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Biennial report to the General Assembly of Virginia.

Hanover, Va., The Association.

1900-19

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSLS (Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia. Biennial report) v. 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9 (1900-1917)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Reports of the acting superintendent and executive committee for the year ending ... / Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia.

Richmond : H.T. Ezekiel, [19--?]-

1-19

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSLS (Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia. Reports of the acting superintendent and executive committe) 1909Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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FormatTextCall numberSLS (Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia. Reports of the acting superintendent and executive committe)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Soledad brother : the prison letters of George Jackson / Introd. by Jean Genet.

New York : Bantam Books, [1970]

1970

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc C 94-255Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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A call to action : an analysis and overview of the United States criminal justice system, with recommendations / National Commission on Crime and Justice ; Linda M. Thurston, editor.

Chicago : Third World Press, 1993.

1993

3 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 97-1400Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberSc *Ref Third World Press t.101Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 95-2306Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Blacks in corrections : understanding network systems in prison society / Clyde E. DeBerry.

Bristol, IN : Wyndham Hall Press, c1994.

1994

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc D 95-369Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The employment problem of the New York State Negro prisoner [microform] : a proposed solution / C. Glenn Carrington.

1941.

1941

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-4784Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Still Black, still strong : survivors of the U.S. war against Black revolutionaries / Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Assata Shakur ; edited by Jim Fletcher, Tanaquil Jones, & Sylvère Lotringer.

New York : Semiotext(e) ; [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by MIT Press, [1993].

1993

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc C 95-128Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberJFC 95-1130Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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All God's children : the Bosket family and the American tradition of violence / Fox Butterfield.

New York : A. Knopf, 1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc E 95-877Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Each night I die / David Belton.

Edgewood, MD : M.E. Duncan & Co., c1992.

1992

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc D 96-280Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Twice the work of free labor : the political economy of convict labor in the New South / Alex Lichtenstein.

London ; New York : Verso, 1996.

1996

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc E 96-89Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberJBE 96-1200Item locationOffsite

Worse than slavery : Parchman Farm and the ordeal of Jim Crow justice / David M. Oshinsky.

New York : Free Press, c1996.

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc E 96-167Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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In defense of Mumia / edited by S.E. Anderson and Tony Medina.

New York : Writers and Readers Pub., 1996.

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc D 96-524Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The road to hell : the true story of George Jackson, Stephen Bingham, and the San Quentin Massacre / Paul Liberatore.

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1996.

1996

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc E 96-632Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 96-13737Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The imprisonment of African American women : causes, conditions, and future implications / by Catherine Fisher Collins.

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1997.

1997

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc D 97-326Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberJFD 97-3707Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Death blossoms : reflections from a prisoner of conscience / Mumia Abu-Jamal; foreword by Cornel West; preface by Julia Wright.

Farmington, PA, USA : Plough Pub. House, c1997.

1997

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc C 97-124Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The several lives of Chester Himes / Edward Margolies & Michel Fabre.

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1997.

1997

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc E 97-558Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 97-8306Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Convict labor in the Alabama coal mines, 1874-1928 / Robert L. Cvornyek.

1993.

1993

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc D 97-1367Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Prisons : the lockdown of Black America's future / by Keidi Obi Awadu.

Long Beach, CA : Conscious Rasta Press, 1996.

1996

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc F 98-283Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Angela Davis Legal defense collection, 1970-1972.

1970-1972

6 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 410 Box 6Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 410 Box 5Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

Available by appointment at Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives. See the finding aid for details.

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MG 410 Box 4Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Post conviction problems and the Black community / Harold R. Washington.

Cambridge : Harvard University, c1970.

1970

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc F 98-141Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Differences in the Hare Psychopathy Checklist-Revised scores among African-American and white offenders / by Pamela Lynne Barrigher.

1997.

1997

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc D 00-2576Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Yesterday will make you cry / Chester Himes.

New York : Norton, c1998.

1998

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc D 98-832Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Prisoners of war : the case of the New York Three.

New York, N.Y. : Friends of the New York Three, [1981?]

1981

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc D 98-780Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Second chance : a novel / by Jerome Dyson Wright.

Los Angeles, CA : Holloway House Pub. Co., c1986.

1986

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberSc C 98-260Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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