Newsletters of the National Organizing Committee to Build the African National Prison Organization

1979. the pan-African political party, the African People's Socialist Party made the decision to create the African National Prison Organization (ANPO) in an effort to forge a unity with Black independence movements, and prison forces to greater achieve solidarity towards self-determination, anti-imperialism/colonialism and political independence for the greater pan-African movement and African American diaspora. Two Issues of: Build the African National Prison Organization: Newsletter of the National Organizing Committee to Build ANPO. Louisville, KY: the Committee, 1979. Approximately 15.5" x 11.5" - two issues, 4 pages each, both with address label and postal markings around the masthead, horizontally fold-creased. These newsletters were issued in the run-up to a September conference to establish ANPO (affiliated with the African People's Socialist Party). They reported on local activism in various parts of the country by Black nationalist prisoners' rights groups. Contents include political cartoons, articles on labor organization and civil rights activism, and calls to organize ANPO throughout the US. The earlier issue (June 20-July 20) has some mathematical notes jotted on the front page, the other (August 1979) is evenly toned but unmarked, in very good condition.