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

Organizational rights: Tips on Surveillance and Security Organizational rights: Tips on Surveillance and Security
Publisher: Minnesota Coalition to Prevent Repressive Federal LegislationFormat: MonographCollection: Grand Jury
Factsheet on counteracting government surveillance.
Chicago Guild Update Chicago Guild Update
Publisher: National Lawyers Guild Chicago ChapterDate: 2/1985Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Grand Jury
Includes handwritten notations. Major focus is miscellaneous highlights from the National Lawyers Guild Conference 1985 in Atlanta Georgia.
Criminal Justice: New Developments in the Judicial Art of Repression Criminal Justice: New Developments in the Judicial Art of Repression
Author: Michael E. DeutschFormat: MonographCollection: Grand Jury
Reproduction
The Improper use of the Federal Grand Jury: An Instrument for The Internment of Political Activists The Improper use of the Federal Grand Jury: An Instrument for The Internment of Political Activists
Author: Michael E. DeutschPublisher: Journal of Criminal Law and CriminologyYear: 1984Volume Number: Vol. 75-4Format: ArticleCollection: Grand Jury
Reproduction. Article available from Law Collective (link from Internet Archive).
If an Agent Knocks: Federal Investigators and Your Rights If an Agent Knocks: Federal Investigators and Your Rights
Publisher: Center for Constitutional RightsDate: 3/1985Volume Number: MarchFormat: MonographCollection: Grand Jury
Educational Pamphlet with Frequently Asked Questions about FBI and your rights.
The FBI Story The FBI Story
Publisher: Woodstock TimesYear: 1976Format: ArticleCollection: Grand Jury
Reproduction
Statement of Shelley Miller to the Grand Jury Statement of Shelley Miller to the Grand Jury
Author: Shelley MillerDate: 2/2/1983Volume Number: 2-FebFormat: StatementCollection: Grand Jury
I am refusing to testify before this grand jury because it is an attack, fundamentally, on the right of the Puerto Rican nation to fight to win its liberation, to defeat US imperialism by whatever means it takes.
National Peoples Moratorium 1979: Against Police, INS, BIA Crimes and Grand Jury, FBI Repression National Peoples Moratorium 1979: Against Police, INS, BIA Crimes and Grand Jury, FBI Repression
Publisher: New York Committee Against RepressionYear: 1979Format: FlyerCollection: Grand Jury
In English and Spanish. Conference to discuss and organize againist government repression of social movements.