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

Carlos Albert Torres Carlos Albert Torres
Date: 4/21/2006Call Number: M 027Format: CDProducers: Walter TurnerCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Interview for Africa Today with Puerto Rican political prisoner.
Carlos Albert Torres Carlos Albert Torres
Date: 4/21/2006Call Number: M 028Format: CDProducers: Walter TurnerCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Interview for Africa Today with Puerto Rican political prisoner.
Carlos Albert Torres Carlos Albert Torres
Date: 4/21/2006Call Number: M 029Format: CDProducers: Walter TurnerCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Interview for Africa Today with Puerto Rican political prisoner. Sound sweetened.
Letter to Friends Letter to Friends
Author: Barbara CurziPublisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersDate: 7/19/1996Volume Number: 19-JulFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Includes form letter to Bill Clinton
Towards a Future without Puerto Rican Prisoners of War & Political Prisoners Towards a Future without Puerto Rican Prisoners of War & Political Prisoners
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersYear: 1991Format: FlyerCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Support pamphlet
Justice and Amnesty for Puerto Rican Poltical Prisoners Justice and Amnesty for Puerto Rican Poltical Prisoners
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersYear: 1995Format: FlyerCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Half-sheet in support of Puerto Rican women political prisoners.
El Bienteveo Libre El Bienteveo Libre
Publisher: West Coast Chapter of National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersYear: 1993Volume Number: No. 5 AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Contents: Information about the struggle to win freedom for Puerto Rican political prisoners and prisoners of war.
90 Years of Colonialism 90 Years of Colonialism
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersYear: 1988Format: FlyerCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Celebrate the Grito de Lares (Birth of the Puerto Rican nation)
Letter to Amnesty International Letter to Amnesty International
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersDate: 5/19/1981Volume Number: 19-MayFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Letter to Amnesty International seeking assistance in locating and assuring the physical and psychological security of the disappeared Puerto Rican POW Alfredo Mendez.
The Struggle Continues!! The Struggle Continues!!
Format: FlyerCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Flyer distributed after the US government captured Wilfredo Santana and Oscar Lopez.