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“I almost fell out of my chair,” Strauss recalled. She was shocked to hear what it was, and called Strauss. “She said, ‘Oh, I should probably mention I also have this other archive,’” Murphy said.

(In 2014, Fernández sued the New York Police Department over access to millions of pages of surveillance files of the Black Panthers and others.)Īfter a few conversations, Fernández followed up with an unexpected message. Murphy, the archivist at the Pembroke Center, a feminist research center at Brown, was also interested in acquiring Fernández’s papers, which record both her own activism and her work as a prominent scholar of radical movements. In spring 2020, Murphy began recording an oral history with Johanna Fernández, a historian at Baruch College in Manhattan and a Brown alumna who had been involved in the student takeover of University Hall, as part of an ultimately successful campaign for need-blind admissions and greater minority recruiting. The archive came to Brown almost by accident. It had filled his cell on death row, before it was shipped a decade ago to the home of a scholar and friend, where it sat all but unseen.Ību-Jamal’s archive will be held by the university’s John Hay Library, as part of its new Voices of Mass Incarceration collecting initiative, which is aimed at chronicling one of the most pervasive, hotly debated - and under-documented - aspects of American life. But now, the trove of paper he accumulated as one of America’s most famous prisoners has found a permanent home in a different kind of institution.īrown University has acquired Abu-Jamal’s personal archive, more than 60 boxes of letters, notebooks, manuscripts, pamphlets, personal artifacts, books and other material. Abu-Jamal is currently serving a life sentence in a Pennsylvania prison. His prominence has faded since 2011, when after a series of appeals, the Philadelphia district attorney agreed to drop the death penalty.

A former Black Panther sentenced to death in the 1981 murder of a police officer, he became a best-selling author and commentator in the early 1990s, as “Free Mumia” became a staple of protests and T-shirts. For years, Mumia Abu-Jamal was the face of the anti-death penalty movement in the United States.