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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.

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Norma Jean Croy Norma Jean Croy
Date: 8/28/1995Call Number: PM 327AFormat: Cass AProducers: Prison Activist Resource CenterProgram: On The Outside Collection: Norma Jean Croy
Norma Jean Croy & the 1978 Hooty Case are discussed in great detail in an interview with Rita Brown and Jane Segal. The claim for self-defense helped Hooty get acquitted from his sentence, but not Norma Jean Croy. She remains at Chowchilla for life. Bo and Jane encourage people to advocate for her release. They also question the government's use of prisons in the U.S.
From the Arawak Indians to Norma Jean Croy: 500 Years of Resistance From the Arawak Indians to Norma Jean Croy: 500 Years of Resistance
Publisher: Gay American Indians, Norma Jean Croy Defense Committee, Out of Control - Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners, Lesbians and Gays Against Intervention, Revolting Lesbians, The On Our Rag CollectiveYear: 1992Format: FlyerCollection: Norma Jean Croy
Pamphlet for Lesbian and gay Benefit for Norma Jean Croy
Free Norma Jean Croy Free Norma Jean Croy
Publisher: Norma Jean Croy Defense CommitteeFormat: FlyerCollection: Norma Jean Croy
Flyer about what you can do to help free Norma Jean Croy
Lifelong Hunt for Justice Lifelong Hunt for Justice
Author: Joan SmithPublisher: San Francisco ExaminerDate: 6/23/1991Volume Number: 23-JunFormat: ArticleCollection: Norma Jean Croy
Article about case of Norma Jean Croy
Freedom for Norma Jean Croy Freedom for Norma Jean Croy
Publisher: Norma Jean Croy Defense CommitteeFormat: PamphletCollection: Norma Jean Croy
A timeline, important issues behind the case and what you can do to help
Statement of Facts Statement of Facts
Publisher: Norma Jean Croy Defense CommitteeFormat: StatementCollection: Norma Jean Croy
A narrative of the events surrounding the arrest of Norma Jean and Patrick "Hooty" Croy
Woman of the Year - Norma Jean Croy Woman of the Year - Norma Jean Croy
Publisher: Out of TimeYear: 1992Volume Number: Issue 13 MarchFormat: PamphletCollection: Norma Jean Croy
Pamphlet distributed by the Out of Control- Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners detailing the herstory of Norma Jean Croy and Norma's current situation.
The Trials of Norma Jean Croy The Trials of Norma Jean Croy
Author: Sandra BodovitzPublisher: The RecorderDate: 8/13/1990Volume Number: 13-AugFormat: ArticleCollection: Norma Jean Croy
"At his retrial in May a jury found Hooty Croy acted in self-defense when he killed a police officer. But Norma Jean, convicted as her brother's conspirator, remains imprisoned. The prospects for winning her release soon seem unpromising."