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

Youth Imprisonment Youth Imprisonment
Date: 1/1/2008Call Number: PM 306Format: Cass A & BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The OutsideCollection: Prisons - Youth
Jade Crown of Bad Kids Magazine speaks about youth issues - homelessness, incarceration and mental illness.
Criminalization of Youth Criminalization of Youth
Date: 11/6/1995Call Number: PM 346BFormat: Cass BProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Prisons - Youth
Joy Storm discusses the criminalization of youth, which feeds the prison systems and serves as a scapegoat for the problems in society.
Youth - an endangered species Youth - an endangered species
Date: 4/8/1985Call Number: PM 358Format: CassetteCollection: Prisons - Youth
A workshop in Birmingham, Alabama about the incarceration of Black and Latino youth. Discusses gang violence. Participants explain that youth need to reconnect with their culture which has been lost through mass imprisonment.
Jade Crown Interview Jade Crown Interview
Date: 4/27/1998Call Number: PM 376Format: CassetteProducers: Prison Action CommiitteeProgram: On the OutsideCollection: Prisons - Youth
Youth activist who is a member of the Prison Action Committee in Olympia, Washington speaks about youth encounters with enforcement agencies and a magazine she has begun called "Bad Kids."
The Beat Within The Beat Within
Publisher: Pacific News ServiceVolume Number: Vol. 4-41Format: PeriodicalCollection: Prisons - Youth
A Weekly Newsletter of Writing and Art by incarcerated youth.
News clippings on Juvenile Crime News clippings on Juvenile Crime
Format: ArticleCollection: Prisons - Youth
Various articles and newspaper clippings concerning issues of juvenile justice.
Does Heaven have a Ghetto? Does Heaven have a Ghetto?
Author: edited by SOY CollectivePublisher: Red Salmon ArtsYear: 2009Format: MonographCollection: Prisons - Youth
Poetry and Artwork by Youth from Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center
I Come from a Teardrop I Come from a Teardrop
Author: edited by Czarina Aggabao & Rene ValdezPublisher: Red Salmon ArtsYear: 2010Format: MonographCollection: Prisons - Youth
Poetry & Artwork by Youth at Gardner Betts Juvenile Justice Center