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

SDS Educational Packet: Self-Determination SDS Educational Packet: Self-Determination
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Self-Determination
SDS Educational Packet: United States 1967- High Tide of Black Resistance SDS Educational Packet: United States 1967- High Tide of Black Resistance
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
James Forman: United States 1967- High Tide of Black Resistance
SDS Educational Packet: The Struggle Against Racism in America SDS Educational Packet: The Struggle Against Racism in America
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Excerpts from Black Reconstruction by WEB DuBois
New Left Notes New Left Notes
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyVolume Number: Vol. 4-9 Special IssueFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
International Womens Day Issue
New Left Notes New Left Notes
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyVolume Number: Vol. 4-9 Special IssueFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
International Womens Day Issue
New Left Notes New Left Notes
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1969Volume Number: Vol. 4-13Format: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents include: Repression hits the Panthers, The Schools Must Serve the People, Build SDS in the South, Oakland Seven Acquitted, more.
SDS Educational Packet: Black Workers Lead SDS Educational Packet: Black Workers Lead
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Black Workers Lead (from Drum)
New Left Notes New Left Notes
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1969Volume Number: Vol 4-24Format: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents include: Bring the War Home, Proposed SDS Unity Principals, Eldridge Cleaver to Erica Huggins, more.
SDS Regional Newsletter #7 SDS Regional Newsletter #7
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 2/22/1966Volume Number: 22-FebFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
South Africa: Suggestions; Tax Refusal Program; Delano Grape Strike; Teenagers and Social Reform; and other regional news.
New Left Notes New Left Notes
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1966Volume Number: Vol. 1-4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents include: National Secretarys report, Notes on the pathology of the NC, the economics of Apartheid, more.