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

Geronimo Pratt for COINTELPRO 101 (#2) Geronimo Pratt for COINTELPRO 101 (#2)
Date: 9/3/2007Call Number: C 10 113Format: DV CamCollection: Geronimo Pratt
High-ranking member of the Black Panther Party and human rights activist. Wrongly convicted, through a COINTELPRO operation, of murder and spent 27 years in prison.
Geronimo Pratt for COINTELPRO 101 Geronimo Pratt for COINTELPRO 101
Date: 9/3/2007Call Number: C 10 115Format: DVDCollection: Geronimo Pratt
High-ranking member of the Black Panther Party and human rights activist. Wrongly convicted, through a COINTELPRO operation, of murder and spent 27 years in prison.
Bonnie Kerness Interviews Sundiata Acoli Bonnie Kerness Interviews Sundiata Acoli
Date: 4/27/1996Call Number: PM 414AFormat: Cass AProducers: Bonnie KernessCollection: Sundiata Acoli
Interview conducted at Allenwood Federal Prison surrounding the trial on control units.
Bonnie Kerness Interviews Sundiata Acoli Bonnie Kerness Interviews Sundiata Acoli
Date: 4/27/1996Call Number: CD 806Format: CDProducers: Bonnie KernessCollection: Sundiata Acoli
Interview conducted at Allenwood Federal Prison surrounding the trial on control units. Sundiata Acoli on explanations on Control Units and their use and psychological effect on political prisoners, prisoners of war and people's struggle. Phillip Zimbardo narrates this audio portion of the documentary "Quiet Rage: The Documentary" which covers a 6 day experiment on the psychological effects of prisoner and guard roles and relationships.
Liberation Will Come from a Black Thing Liberation Will Come from a Black Thing
Author: James FormanYear: 1968Format: MonographCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
Taken from a speech given at the Western Regional Black Youth Conference, held in Los Angeles, California on Nov. 23, 1967.
The Black Voice The Black Voice
Publisher: The Black VoiceVolume Number: Vol. 5-2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Various Black Liberation Movement Publications
Anarchist Panther Anarchist Panther
Author: Ashanti AlstonYear: 1999Volume Number: Vol. 1-1 OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Anarchist Panther
Zine produced by political prisoner Ashanti Alston.
The U.S. Imperialist State and the Black Nation The U.S. Imperialist State and the Black Nation
Author: Saladine MuhammadPublisher: The Institute of Black Political StudiesFormat: TranscriptCollection: Black Power/Black Nation
Speech initially given at a forum in the US Black National Question, along with another major speaker on the topic, Imini Baraka, chairman of the Revolutionary Communist League. Brother Saladin Muhammad is a member of the National Central Committee of the Afrikan Peoples Party.
Rally for Justice Rally for Justice
Publisher: The Committee for Justice for Tyrone GuytonYear: 1974Format: FlyerCollection: Tyrone Guyton
Flyer for a rally at the State Capital to demand a special prosecutor be appointed to investigate and prosecute Tyrone's murder
Remember Fred Hampton Mark Clark Remember Fred Hampton Mark Clark
Publisher: December 4th CommitteeFormat: PamphletCollection: Fred Hampton