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

Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons
Publisher: Campaign to Stop Control unit PrisonsYear: 1995Format: FlyerCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Includes: History of Control Unit Prisons; How we Define "Control Unit"; History of the Campaign; Structure. Part of 6/16/1995 mailing.
CEML Letter CEML Letter
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1995Format: CorrespondenceCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Urgent letter regarding 10/1995 prison rebellions. Part of 11/1995 mailing.
Control Unit Research Project: State of Ohio Control Unit Research Project: State of Ohio
Publisher: Liz Gross, intern; Mike Stephenson, intern American Friends Service CommitteeYear: 1995Format: ReportCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Summary of responses from inmates on conditions and Facilities at many Control Unit Prisons. Part of 12/1995 mailing.
Diagram of control unit Diagram of control unit
Publisher: Classic CollectorYear: 1995Collection: American Friends Service Committee
Diagram of control unit cell. Part of 11/7/1995 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.
A perspective for the work to abolish Control Unit Prisons A perspective for the work to abolish Control Unit Prisons
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1995Format: StatementCollection: American Friends Service Committee
CEML manifesto and call to action. Part of 1/5/1995 AFSC Memorandum.
Some Primary Concerns about the Nature of the movement, Which should be discussed at the Chicago Assembly, Some Primary Concerns about the Nature of the movement, Which should be discussed at the Chicago Assembly,
Publisher: Lorenzo Kom'boa ErvinYear: 1995Format: MonographCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Comments on organizational structure. Part of 9/20/1995 mailing.
Questionarre for prisoners Questionarre for prisoners
Publisher: Mike Stephenson; Liz gross, American Friends Service committeeYear: 1995Format: CorrespondenceCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Letter and questionnaire on Control Unit Prisons
Warren Christopher, Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Secretary of State
Publisher: Kenneth Roth, Exec. Director Human Rights Watch; Gay MacDougall, Exec. Director, International Human Rights Law Group; Elaine R. Jones, Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.Year: 1995Format: CorrespondenceCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Letter to Secretary of State expressing interest in the U.S. forthcoming submission to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Includes Summary of Concerns about Race Discrimination in the I.S. Criminal Justice System. Part of 12/1995 mailing.
Topical Survey: Super-Max Facilities and Units Topical Survey: Super-Max Facilities and Units
Publisher: Summary for Corrections AdministratorsYear: 1995Format: FlyerCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Information on the facilities and development of Super-Max prisons. Part of 1/21/1995 AFSC Mailing.