Research Catalog

  • Death row, U.S.A. / LDF.

    • Text
    • New York, N.Y. : NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, 1980?-
    • 1980-present
    • 4 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc+ Ser.-N .D415 Feb 20, 1983-win 1991Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc+ Ser.-N .D415 Oct. 1, 1985-Oct. 1, 1986Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFM 95-517 Spr. 1992- FaLL 1994Offsite
  • Hymn to the rising sun : a drama in one act / by Paul Green.

    • Text
    • New York : S. French, 1963.
    • 1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro F-3067Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mental health and black offenders / Charles E. Owens.

    • Text
    • Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books, c1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 80-192Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • Boston, Mass. : G. K. Hall ; Cambridge, Mass. : Schenkman Pub. Co., [1981]
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLE 81-1782Offsite
  • Slow coming dark : interviews on death row / Doug Magee.

    • Text
    • New York : Pilgrim Press, c1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 81-160Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • American Saturday / Clark Howard.

    • Text
    • New York, N.Y. : R. Marek Publishers, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 81-288Schomburg 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.

    • Text
    • Westport, Conn. : L. Hill, c1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 84-571Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1983.
    • 1983
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 83-5742Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 84-621Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c1985.
    • 1985
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JLD 85-3704Offsite
    Not available - In use until 2024-05-14 - Please for assistance.
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 96-1236Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Moving image
    • Omaha, Neb. : KETV, 1979-06-30.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-965Schomburg 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.

    • Text
    • 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-5198Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-4563Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Convict catechism [microform]! Read to your neighbor.

    • Text
    • [n. p., Independent Democratic Committee of Georgia, 1878?]
    • 1878
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text IEC 75-2450Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-4854Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • 1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-5505Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • New York, N.Y. : Fortune Society, c1970.
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro F-11594Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Ben Chavis portrait collection [graphic].

    • Still image
    • <1970?-1989?>
    • 1970-1989
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Chavis, BenSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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

    • Still image
    • <1974.>
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Still image Sc Photo Little, JoanneSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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

    • Text
    • Derry, N.H. ; Ridgewood, N.J. : Babcock & Koontz, c1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *KP (Coffee) 92-209Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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

    • Moving image
    • United States : WHMM-TV, 1990-11.
    • 1990
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-999 Part ASchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Moving image Sc Visual DVD-999 Part BSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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  • Joseph Beam papers, 1967-1990.

    • Mixed material
    • 1967-1990
    • 21 Items

    Available Online

    http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20666
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 455 Box 19Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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    Mixed material Sc MG 455 Box 20Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 455 Box 21Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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

    • Text
    • New York, NY : Times Books, c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 92-374Schomburg 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.

    • Text
    • Boston : Office of Littell's living Age, [1864]
    • 1864
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Rare 973.7-U (United States Sanitary Comm. Narrative of privations)Schomburg 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.

    • Text
    • Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1978.
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 93-847Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • Columbus : Ohio State University Press, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 94-492Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • Hanover, Va., The Association.
    • 1901-19
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZAN-11929 no. 1 - 4 Schwarzman 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.

    • Text
    • Richmond : H.T. Ezekiel, [19--?]-
    • 1-19
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text *ZAN-11930 no. 1 - 4Schwarzman Building - Microforms Room 315

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  • Biennial report to the General Assembly of Virginia.

    • Text
    • Hanover, Va., The Association.
    • 1900-19
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SLS (Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia. Biennial report) v. 1, 3, 5, 6, 8 & 9 (1900-1917)Schwarzman 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.

    • Text
    • Richmond : H.T. Ezekiel, [19--?]-
    • 1-19
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SLS (Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia. Reports of the acting superintendent and executive committe)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text SLS (Negro Reformatory Association of Virginia. Reports of the acting superintendent and executive committe) 1909Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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

    • Text
    • New York : Bantam Books, [1970]
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 94-255Schomburg 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.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Third World Press, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 3 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 95-2306Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc *Ref Third World Press t.101Schomburg Center - Research & Reference - Open Shelf

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 97-1400Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • Bristol, IN : Wyndham Hall Press, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 95-369Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • 1941.
    • 1941
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc Micro R-4784Schomburg 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.

    • Text
    • New York : Semiotext(e) ; [Place of publication not identified] : Distributed by MIT Press, [1993].
    • 1993
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFC 95-1130Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 95-128Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • New York : A. Knopf, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 95-877Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Each night I die / David Belton.

    • Text
    • Edgewood, MD : M.E. Duncan & Co., c1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 96-280Schomburg 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.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : Verso, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JBE 96-1200Offsite
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 96-89Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • New York : Free Press, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 96-167Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • New York : Writers and Readers Pub., 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 96-524Schomburg 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.

    • Text
    • New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, c1996.
    • 1996
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 96-13737Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 96-632Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c1997.
    • 1997
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFD 97-3707Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 97-326Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • Farmington, PA, USA : Plough Pub. House, c1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 97-124Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c1997.
    • 1997
    • 2 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text JFE 97-8306Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc E 97-558Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 97-1367Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • Long Beach, CA : Conscious Rasta Press, 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 98-283Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Angela Davis Legal defense collection, 1970-1972.

    • Mixed material
    • 1970-1972
    • 6 Items
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 410 Box 4Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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    Mixed material Sc MG 410 Box 5Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Mixed material Sc MG 410 Box 6Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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

    • Text
    • Cambridge : Harvard University, c1970.
    • 1970
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc F 98-141Schomburg 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.

    • Text
    • 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 00-2576Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Yesterday will make you cry / Chester Himes.

    • Text
    • New York : Norton, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 98-832Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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

    • Text
    • New York, N.Y. : Friends of the New York Three, [1981?]
    • 1981
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc D 98-780Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Second chance : a novel / by Jerome Dyson Wright.

    • Text
    • Los Angeles, CA : Holloway House Pub. Co., c1986.
    • 1986
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Text Sc C 98-260Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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