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

Radical Then. What Now? Radical Then. What Now?
Author: Peter MeyerPublisher: My GenerationYear: 2001Volume Number: Nov-DecFormat: ArticleCollection: Weather Underground Organization
Outlaws of Amerika: The Weather Underground Outlaws of Amerika: The Weather Underground
Publisher: Western GoalsYear: 1982Format: BookCollection: Weather Underground Organization
Happy Birthday Weather Underground Happy Birthday Weather Underground
Publisher: Kent, New Nation Sisters; Dragonfire; YippiesFormat: MonographCollection: Weather Underground Organization
The Urban Guerrillas The Urban Guerrillas
Publisher: TimeDate: 11/2/1970Volume Number: 2-NovFormat: ArticleCollection: Weather Underground Organization
Article on the Weather Underground Organization.
Berkeley Tribe Berkeley Tribe
Publisher: Berkeley TribeYear: 1970Volume Number: Vol 2 No 21 Issue 47 May 29-June 5Format: PeriodicalCollection: Weather Underground Organization
The Symbionese Guerillas The Symbionese Guerillas
Author: Bernadine DohrnPublisher: Weather Underground OrganizationDate: 2/20/1974Volume Number: 20-FebFormat: MonographCollection: Weather Underground Organization
Sing a Battle Song: Poems by Women in the Weather Underground Organization Sing a Battle Song: Poems by Women in the Weather Underground Organization
Publisher: Inkworks; Weather Underground OrganizationYear: 1975Format: MonographCollection: Weather Underground Organization
Communique from Weather Underground Organization: January 28, 1975 Communique from Weather Underground Organization: January 28, 1975
Publisher: Prairie Fire Distribution CommitteeDate: 1/28/1975Volume Number: 28-JanFormat: MonographCollection: Weather Underground Organization
Talk Among the Womenfolk Talk Among the Womenfolk
Author: Susan SaxePublisher: Common Woman PressYear: 1976Format: MonographCollection: Weather Underground Organization