New Left Notes, vol. 1, no. 44, November 18, 1966
New Left Notes was the official newspaper published by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). This issue includes articles about councilmanic redistricting; anti-draft activism; an anti-war event in London; a plea to the people of America from prominent Latin Americans against the War in Vietnam; Malcolm X, power, politics and organizing; the case of Jeff Segal; war profiteering; university reform; Latin American Defense Organization; Radical Education Project; planning for the upcoming National Council meeting; report from Columbia, Missouri; analysis of anti-draft conference in Chicago; report of activism by San Fernando Valley State SDS chapter; report from first Mid-Atlantic SDS meeting; protest by magistrates in Pikeville, Kentucky; African liberation in Guinea, Angola and Mozambique.
Students for a Democratic Society
Bruce Pech
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
November 18, 1966
underground press
Midnight Special Prisoners News, vol. 3, no. 7, July 1973
Prisoner's Rights Movement
Midnight Special Prisoners News was published in the early-1970s by the National Lawyers Guild in New York. The newspaper was a part of the larger prisoner’s rights movement and sought to provide news about conditions inside prisons from the prisoner’s point of view. It also shared legal information aimed at helping prisoners and expanding their rights. In this issue, articles focus on the Intensive Treatment Program Center in Marquette, Michigan; conditions at Attica State Prison; the purpose of police; reports from prisons in Milan, Michigan, Lorton, Virginia, Springfield, Missouri, Clinton and Bordertown, New Jersey, Bedford Hills, New York, Frontera, California, Dannemora, New York, Mattewan State Hospital in New York, and Riker’s Island, New York; a plea for prisoner unity; the case of the Virgin Island 5; the Wounded Knee 8; poetry; race, class and prisoner unity; the Polar Bear Party; education and liberation; update on a Brooklyn prisoner rights lawsuit; letters to the editor.
National Lawyers Guild
Roz Payne
Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
July 1973
underground press