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 Moral Strength of the Puerto Rican Prisoners of War The Moral Strength of the Puerto Rican Prisoners of War
Author: Luis Nieves-FalconFormat: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Essay on anti-imperialist struggle of Puerto rice, their suffering as a colony, and the suffering and struggle of Puerto Rican prisoners of war in the US
Due Obedience - Fires Due Obedience - Fires
Author: Gino LofredoFormat: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
First chapter of Due Obedience Fire/ Obediencia debida Fuegos. translated by Marilyn Buck.
Daughter, I Hope to See You When the day of Liberation Dawns Daughter, I Hope to See You When the day of Liberation Dawns
Author: Luis Nieves-FalconFormat: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Personal account of the imprisonment of Maria Haydee Torres
Postcard to Michael Quinlan Postcard to Michael Quinlan
Format: CorrespondenceCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Appeal to Director of the Board of Prisons to allow furlough to Ricardo Jimenez to visit his mother in hospital.
Lucy Rodriguez/Alicia Rodriguez at San Francisco Airport, Leaving for home Lucy Rodriguez/Alicia Rodriguez at San Francisco Airport, Leaving for home
Year: 1999Collection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Digital photograph on paper
Yo no amo a la guerra - I don't love war - No soy ua criminal - I am not a criminal… Yo no amo a la guerra - I don't love war - No soy ua criminal - I am not a criminal…
Authors: Lucy & Alicia Rodriguez, Adolfo Matos, Dylcia Pagan, Carmen ValentinFormat: ArticleCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Statements from several of the Puerto Rican political prisoners about their lives and commitments and in support of their releae
Carmen Valentin Carmen Valentin
Publisher: "Freedom Now" Women's CommissionFormat: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Profile on Puerto Rican Political Prisoner Carmen Valentin
Locked up for Liberation Locked up for Liberation
Author: Amy SonniePublisher: San Francisco Bay GuardianYear: 1999Format: ArticleCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Article on FALN, Carmen Valentin and the campaign for clemency
The Puerto Rican Political Prisoners The Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
Publisher: Comite 98 of CaliforniaFormat: MonographCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Information on amnesty campaign for Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
Letter to Attorney General William French Smith Letter to Attorney General William French Smith
Publisher: Matrix, Woman's Press, No More cages, Off Our Backs, Big mama Rage, Womannews, Throughtthe (sic) Looking GlassFormat: CorrespondenceCollection: Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional (FALN)
Inquiry and demand for the whereabouts of Alfredo Mendez, his visitation rights and his condition.