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.

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Tear Down the walls Conference Program: Draft Tear Down the walls Conference Program: Draft
Publisher: Tear Down the WallsYear: 2001Format: AgendaCollection: Tear Down The Walls Political Prisoner Conference
Draft of conference: June 19. 2001
Letter to Thomas Letter to Thomas
Author: BashirYear: 2001Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Tear Down The Walls Political Prisoner Conference
Reproduction of letter in response to letter to Tear down The Walls/NCC concwerns (copy of original letter attached)
Wanted: end the US Drug War Wanted: end the US Drug War
Publisher: California Coalition for Women Prisoners; Legal Services for Prisoners with Children; Families Against Mandatory Minimums, Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation; Critical Resistance; Justice Now; california Prison focus; Human Rights and the Drug War; Prison Acticist Resource Center; Criminal Justice Consortium; The November Coalition; The national Lawyer's Guild; timers; Wose community Church of the American WayFormat: FlyerCollection: Tear Down The Walls Political Prisoner Conference
Reproduction of advertisement for event
Letter to PP/POWs, ex PP's and PP/POW Supporters Letter to PP/POWs, ex PP's and PP/POW Supporters
Author: SusanYear: 2001Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Tear Down The Walls Political Prisoner Conference
Updates on the coditions and transfers of prisoners
Petition for Amnesty and Freedom of All Political Prisoners Petition for Amnesty and Freedom of All Political Prisoners
Publisher: The Jericho MovementYear: 2001Format: EphemeraCollection: Tear Down The Walls Political Prisoner Conference
Petition to Senator John Burton to release all political prisoners and prisoners of war
Letter to "brother" Letter to "brother"
Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Tear Down The Walls Political Prisoner Conference
Reproduction. Author unknown
Letter to Jalil Bottom, Curly Estemera Letter to Jalil Bottom, Curly Estemera
Year: 2001Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Tear Down The Walls Political Prisoner Conference
Reproduction. Author unknown
Letter to Jalil Bottom, MS Letter to Jalil Bottom, MS
Year: 2001Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Tear Down The Walls Political Prisoner Conference
Reproduction. Author unknown
Memorandum to Ashanti, Oscar, Blood and Chango Memorandum to Ashanti, Oscar, Blood and Chango
Author: Muhjah ShakirPublisher: Tear down the Walls/NCCYear: 2001Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Tear Down The Walls Political Prisoner Conference
Memorandum in response to letter
Untitled Speech Untitled Speech
Format: TranscriptCollection: Tear Down The Walls Political Prisoner Conference
Speech to Sisters and Brothers pertaining to repression, social control, COINTELPRO