This collection contains materials published by the National Lawyers Guild. Various periodicals including Midnight Special and The Conspiracy are included as well as items like a tribute to the People's law Office in Chicago.
Published by the National Lawyers Guild, Midnight Special served to provide news of the situation within the prisons from the prisoners point of view and disseminate legal information which will be a direct help in securing and expanding prisoner rights. They published articles, letters, poems and artwork by prisoners.
There is a comprehensive run of Lawyers Guild Review between 1944 and 1960.