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

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
America and the New Era America and the New Era
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 6/1963Volume Number: JuneFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Monograph prepared at the June 1963 convention of the Students for a Democratic Society.
Revolution in Mississippi Revolution in Mississippi
Author: Tom HaydenPublisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyVolume Number: JanuaryFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Monograph describing civil rights activities and efforts in Mississippi in the early 1960s.
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.
Trapped in a System Trapped in a System
Author: Carl OglesbyPublisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 11/27/1965Volume Number: 27-NovFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Monograph in protest to the Vietnam War.
The Port Huron Statement The Port Huron Statement
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 10/1966Volume Number: OctoberFormat: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Originally printed in August 1962. This was the first official statement of the Students for a Democratic Society.
SDS: 101 From the Inside SDS: 101 From the Inside
Author: Dennis O'NeilPublisher: Student Commission of Freedom Road Socialist OrganizationYear: 1987Format: MonographCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
This monograph focuses on the history of SDS, the largest organized form taken by the white student movement during the period of the 1960s.
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.
New Left Notes New Left Notes
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyYear: 1966Volume Number: Vol. 1-3Format: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Contents include: Reaction to Bombings, The Movement, the public and the bombings, more.