The Black Panther Party (BPP)

Archives

The Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation Collection, Special Collections, Stanford Library

The Collection contains Dr. Newton's private papers: correspondence, legal documents, scholarly research, manuscripts, and dialogs; Black Panther Party Organization records: correspondence, legal documents, official papers, and membership; Freedom of Information Act files; Multimedia; and newspaper clippings.

The Black Panther Party Pacifica Radio Archives

The Radio Archives Collection contains audio recordings of documentaries, interviews,news coverage, speeches, by distinguished members of the BPP or about The Black Panther Party. The audio recordings were originally broadcast by he Pacifica Radio Network between 1966 and 1989.

Library Databases

Black Thought and Culture  

The Black Thought and Culture Database is an assemblage of unpublished Africana material, including letters, speeches, essays, ephemera, interviews, periodicals, and trial transcripts; such as: “The Transcript of the Muhammad Ali Draft Evasion Trial,” “The Black Panther Newspaper,” and Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation multimedia materials. This database also includes previous published classic Africana titles; such as: “Souls of Black Folk,” “Post Soul Nation,” and “Sister Outsider.”

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974

The Sixties provides primary source materials including autobiographies, correspondence, diaries, government documents, manifestos, oral histories, posters, pamphlets, realia and multimedia. Database documents the historic events, movements, and people of 1960s America.

 Liberation Movement in Africa and African America

This Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) archive contains FBI surveillance files and informer reports on the activities of the African Liberation Support Committee and All African People’s Revolutionary Party.  Collection includes memoranda, correspondence, and analyses; news clippings and articles; copies of handbills, pamphlets, and newsletters and; other United States Government documents.

Adam Matthew Explorer

Adam Matthew Digital collaborates with archives, libraries and research institutions to provide access to primary source databases and curated collections for the humanities and social sciences.   Databases include: African American Communities, Apartheid South Africa, 1948 – 1980, Confidential Print, Gender Identity and Social Change, Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975, Race Relations in America, Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, and  Women in the National Archives.

ProQuest History Vault

History Vault provides primary source materials from digitized archival collections. Content includes correspondence, government records, organization papers, speeches, and other documents.

 Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Federal Government Records

• FBI Files on Black Extremist Organizations, Part 1: COINTELPRO Files on Black Hate Groups and Investigation of the Deacons for Defense and Justice

• FBI Files on Black Extremist Organizations, Part 2: Huey Newton and Eldridge Cleaver of the Black Panther Party

• Federal Surveillance of Afro-Americans (1917-1925): The First World War, the Red Scare, and the Garvey Movement

• Martin Luther King Jr. FBI File, Part 1

• Martin Luther King Jr. FBI File, Part 2: The King-Levison File

 Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1

• The Black Power Movement: Papers of the Revolutionary Action Movement, 1962-1996

• The Black Power Movement: The League of Revolutionary Black Workers, 1965-1976

African American Police League Records, 1961-1988

African American Police League Records, 1961-1988 contains annual and general reports, court files, fundraising items, historical information, minutes, correspondence, clippings, topical files, newsletters, police brutality files, and publications and flyers relative to the ongoing work of the African American Police League (AAPL) and its education and action arm, the League to Improve the Community (LIC). The collection also contains items on numerous law enforcement and civil rights organizations across the country; materials on the suspension of AAPL executive director Renault Robinson from the Chicago Police Department and related lawsuits; and materials pertaining to the National Black Police Association (NBPA). This collection consists of three series--AAPL Operating Files, LIC Operating Files, and NBPA Operating Files--all of which constitutes the History Vault module, "African American Police League Records." The timely publication of this module highlights the still-relevant and consequential topics of police-community relations within the black community, professionalism in law enforcement, and community development and crime education.