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

The International Wages for Housework Campaign The International Wages for Housework Campaign
Publisher: International Wages for Housework CampaignFormat: FlyerCollection: Women Against Imperialism
Flyer for campaign to reduce violence against women by promoting equal pay and economic independence for all women.
Brigada Victoria Mercado: first lesbian and Gay Work Brigade to Nicaragua Brigada Victoria Mercado: first lesbian and Gay Work Brigade to Nicaragua
Publisher: Women's PressFormat: PamphletCollection: Women Against Imperialism
Statement of purpose and unity.
Women's Spring Sock Hop Women's Spring Sock Hop
Publisher: Women Against ImperialismFormat: FlyerCollection: Women Against Imperialism
Flyer for benefit of the International Women's Day Demonstration Committee.
"Dykes to Step Out For": A Lesbian Dance "Dykes to Step Out For": A Lesbian Dance
Publisher: Women Against ImperialismFormat: ProgramCollection: Women Against Imperialism
Program for benefit of the Women's Caucus of Women Against Imperialism.
Questions for the next study on anti-imperialist women in the US Questions for the next study on anti-imperialist women in the US
Publisher: Women Against ImperialismFormat: CompilationCollection: Women Against Imperialism
On organizing a militant anti-imperialist women's movement.
Women Against Imperialism Study Session #4 - Palestine and Zionism Women Against Imperialism Study Session #4 - Palestine and Zionism
Publisher: Women Against ImperialismFormat: StatementCollection: Women Against Imperialism
On Zionism and colonialism.
Rape, Racism, and Reality Rape, Racism, and Reality
Author: Deb FriedmanPublisher: QuestYear: 1979Volume Number: 1979Collection: Women Against Imperialism
On the interaction of rape and racism as supporting the chauvinist Anglo-centric social order.
What can the White Man Say... To the Black Woman? What can the White Man Say... To the Black Woman?
Author: Alice WalkerPublisher: The NationVolume Number: May 22Format: ArticleCollection: Women Against Imperialism
Poetic prose on the oppression of Black and Indian women and children. Reproduction.
A Brief History of Lesbian Oppression: Or, If Lesbianism is so Groovy, How Come Everybody Hates Us? A Brief History of Lesbian Oppression: Or, If Lesbianism is so Groovy, How Come Everybody Hates Us?
Publisher: Women Against ImperialismCollection: Women Against Imperialism
A brief history of lesbian specific homophobia, ant-gay laws, and its interaction with misogyny.
Puerto Rico Study Questions Puerto Rico Study Questions
Publisher: Women Against ImperialismCollection: Women Against Imperialism
Study questions on Puerto Rico and US imperialist strategy, and the role of women in its resistance.