Search Help

How does this work?
There are many ways to search the collections of the Freedom Archives. Below is a brief guide that will help you conduct effective searches. Note, anytime you search for anything in the Freedom Archives, the first results that appear will be our digitized items. Information for items that have yet to be scanned or yet to be digitized can still be viewed, but only by clicking on the show link that will display the hidden (non-digitized) items. If you are interested in accessing these non-digitized materials, please email info@freedomarchives.org.
Exploring the Collections without the Search Bar
Under the heading Browse By Collection, you’ll notice most of the Freedom Archives’ major collections. These collections have an image as well as a short description of what you’ll find in that collection. Click on that image to instantly explore that specific collection.
Basic Searching
You can always type what you’re looking for into the search bar. Certain searches may generate hundreds of results, so sometimes it will help to use quotation marks to help narrow down your results. For instance, searching for the phrase Black Liberation will generate all of our holdings that contain the words Black and Liberation, while searching for “Black Liberation” (in quotation marks) will only generate our records that have those two words next to each other.
Advanced Searching
The Freedom Archives search site also understands Boolean search logic. Click on this link for a brief tutorial on how to use Boolean search logic. Our search function also understands “fuzzy searches.” Fuzzy searches utilize the (*) and will find matches even when users misspell words or enter in only partial words for the search. For example, searching for liber* will produce results for liberation/liberate/liberates/etc.
Keyword Searches
You’ll notice that under the heading KEYWORDS, there are a number of words, phrases or names that describe content. Sometimes these are also called “tags.” Clicking on these words is essentially the same as conducting a basic search.

Search Results

National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons How To Packet National Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons How To Packet
Publisher: National Campaign to Stop control Unit PrisonsFormat: PamphletCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Includes forms for gathering information on nearby control units, conditions of living and incarceration; Copy of Essay "From Alcatraz to Marion to ADX Florence: The Nightmare Escalates" by Jan Susler; Weinstein, Dr. Corey M.D. "Fighting the American Gulag." Third Force v.2 n.6 Jan/Feb. 1995 pp. 24-27.
Stop the torture of Oscar Lopez Rivera Stop the torture of Oscar Lopez Rivera
Publisher: Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience ProjectYear: 1997Format: PamphletCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Movement to "Stop the torture of Oscar Lopez Rivera". Requests letters be sent to Janet Reno. Part of 10/1997 mailing.
National Campaign to Stop Control unit Prisons [brochure] National Campaign to Stop Control unit Prisons [brochure]
Publisher: National Campaign to Stop Control unit PrisonsYear: 1995Format: PamphletCollection: American Friends Service Committee
brochure on history of control units and the campaign. Part of 11/1995 mailing.
AFSC Perspectives on Nonviolence: In Relation to Groups Struggling for Social Justice AFSC Perspectives on Nonviolence: In Relation to Groups Struggling for Social Justice
Publisher: American Friends Service CommitteeYear: 1981Format: PamphletCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Stance of the American Friends Service Committee on the use of violence to obtain equality and social justice.
The Lessons of Marion: The Failure a Maximum Security Prison: A History and Analysis, with Voices of Prisoners The Lessons of Marion: The Failure a Maximum Security Prison: A History and Analysis, with Voices of Prisoners
Publisher: American Friends Service CommitteeYear: 1993Format: PamphletCollection: American Friends Service Committee
1993 ed. Includes introduction to new ed. By Marc Mauer
The Lessons of Marion: The Failure a Maximum Security Prison: A History and Analysis, with Voices of Prisoners The Lessons of Marion: The Failure a Maximum Security Prison: A History and Analysis, with Voices of Prisoners
Publisher: American Friends Service CommitteeYear: 1985Format: PamphletCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Includes: Introduction; The social Context for Increased Prison Repression; The Criminal Justice System Responds; The Reform Community Adapts; Marion as the 'End of the Line'; The Lessons of Marion and Their Implications for New Directions