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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.
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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.
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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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Interview with Lolita Lebron - Part 1 Interview with Lolita Lebron - Part 1
Call Number: PM 045Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Breakthrough
Puerto Rican nationalist Lolita Lebron at the federal prison in Alderson, West Virginia. Interviewed by Barbara Lubinski.
Interview with Lolita Lebron - Part 2 Interview with Lolita Lebron - Part 2
Call Number: PM 046Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Breakthrough
Lolita Lebron with Barbara Lubinski. Lolita describes the conditions of her imprisonment, including confinement in psychiatric facilities, shock treatment, enema treatments, etc. her life as political prisoner, dedication, religious and spiritual aspects.
Interview with Oscar Collazo Interview with Oscar Collazo
Date: 10/10/1976Call Number: PM 048Format: 1/4 7 1/2 ipsCollection: Breakthrough
Interview of Oscar Collazo by the Prison Law Project of Chicago in October 1976.
Rafael Cancel Miranda: A Man and his Message Rafael Cancel Miranda: A Man and his Message
Date: 1/1/1977Call Number: PM 049Format: Cass A & BProducers: Ed HessieCollection: Breakthrough
Brief Overview of Puerto Rico’s colonial status Background of Rafael Cancel Miranda. He describes action at US capitol, prison experiences and harassment, history of colonization, racism of colonizers, defiant spirit of people. Cuban poem about PR. Objections to conditional release, role of UN and international solidarity
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1994Volume Number: Vol. 18-2 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Put Your Left Foot Forward; 501 Blues: Boycotting Levi's; Health Care Rationing: The Slippery Slope; Across the Borderline; Close-Up in Black and White; Bosnia: As the World Turns Its Back; Pounds for Money; Sister Spirit; Letters from Our Readers; Haiti on the Brink interview with Max Blanchet; Write Through the Walls
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1991Volume Number: Vol. 15-1 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
George Bush and the Last Crusade; The Anti Feminist Mystique: Men R Back; Interview with Hungary's Feminist Newwork: Starting from Absolute Zero; Glimpses of South Africa, August 1990; War of Words: Language, Colonialism and English Only; Malcolm X Speaks in the 1990s: Declaration of the African-American Delegation to Symposium in Havana; Femininity: What's it to You?; A Golden Cage: Dora Maria Tellez Talks About Women and Men in Nicaragua; Free Mumia Abu Jamal: An Open Letter from the Black Cultural Workshop, Lompoc Federal Penitentiary; Spanish Political Prisoners: Hunger Strike, One Year Later; CIPES on El Salvador; Write Through the Walls
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1977Volume Number: Vol. 1-1 MarchFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Breakthrough - an Introduction p. 2 - Provisional Statement of PFOC p. 6 section on women's oppression & liberation p. 28 - Meaning of Chicago (class and revolutionary politics) p. 57 - Open Letter to the RC from Native American Warriors p. 59 - To My People by Assata Shakur p. 61
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1977Volume Number: Vol. 1-2 June-JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Introducing Breakthrough No. 2 p. 1 - On the Conviction of Leonard Peltier with a reprint of a support statement by the Native Study Group of Vancouver, British Columbia p. 4 - The Guardian Sets Out to Build Itself a Party, a PFOC critique p. 9 - The Guardian on Women's "Emancipation" - a proposal to move backwards by Flynn and friends - Burning Spear: reprints from the African People's Socialist Party on Bourgeois Ideology on the Left and on Women in Struggle p. 22 - Assata Convicted with a message from Assata p. 31 - Lenin on Guerrilla Warfare p. 34 - a Comment on Puerto Rico Solidarity Work by some members of PFOC
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 2-1 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Anti-imperialist struggle sharpening; PFOC self-criticism p. 1 - Palestine will win! P. 8 -I declare (poem by Mahmoud Darweesh) p. 23 - IWY Houston new stage of struggle p. 24 - notes from an Afrikan POW journal by New Afrikan Prisoners Organization p. 37 - Press statement by the African People's Socialist Party p. 52 - Free the L.A. Five p. 54 - speech by Angel Rodriquez Cristobal of Liga Socialist Puertorriquena, Chicago, 1978 p. 65 - Armed Struggle and Revolution p. 71 - Gotta be Strong (poem) p. 84 - Join in Solidarity with the German R.A.F. p. 86
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 2-2 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: life of George Jackson and Attica uprising p. 1 - Attica Brothers Attacked p. 8 - Defend the August 8th Brigade! P. 14 - Claim No Easy Victories: another look at IWY p. 16 - The Longest Walk p. 25 - Esta Lucha No Se Para, interview with Ricardo Romero p. 29 - Free Dessie Woods! photo essay p. 37- US Colonialism's Terrorist Squads in Puerto Rico, statement by the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional p. 41 - Free Geronimo Pratt p. 44 - By Any Means Necessary, writings of the Black Liberation Army p. 50 - Solidarity with the SLA Prisoners of War Billy & Emily Harris courtroom statement p. 58 PFOC analysis p. 61 - Naminia will be Free, interview with Aaron Shihepo, SWAPO Deputy Sec. for Foreign Relations p. 64 - breakthrough evaluation p. 74 - correspondence p. 75