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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.
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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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Emergency Campiagn to Drop Charges Emergency Campiagn to Drop Charges
Publisher: Emergency Committee to Defend the Human and Legal Rights of Political PrisonersYear: 1989Format: CompilationCollection: Resistance Conspiracy
Form letter from the 'Emergency Campaign to Drop the Charges' of three of the R.C.C. Includes form letter to Attorney General, fact sheet and an article about the prosecution from the New York Times.
Civilize Native American People?; Excerpt from Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions: Women on Their Moon Civilize Native American People?; Excerpt from Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions: Women on Their Moon
Author: John F. Lame DeerPublisher: Tayac FamilyFormat: CompilationCollection: Native Americans
Reproductions of: Unnamed letter to journal concerning the racial and religious suppression of Native American prisoners; Excerpt from Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions Chapter 9: Medicine Good and Bad (p.159-182 with handwritten annotation); Letter from The Tayac Family regarding Moon Lodge for menstruating women and related traditional practices.
Emergency Committee to Stop the Grand Jury Emergency Committee to Stop the Grand Jury
Publisher: Committee to Stop the Grand JuryDate: 9/25/1989Volume Number: 25-SepFormat: CompilationCollection: Grand Jury
Reproduction. Contains a press release, letter from the National Conference of Black Lawyers, Court papers submitted by JBAKC attorneys in Chicago, and all the subpoenaed public documents of the JBAKC.
From Clandestinity: Face to Face with the Grand Jury, Clandestine Struggle Mass Struggle, The Macheteros on Poland, Crossroads and Exit From Clandestinity: Face to Face with the Grand Jury, Clandestine Struggle Mass Struggle, The Macheteros on Poland, Crossroads and Exit
Authors: Raisa Namikin, Pedro Archileta, Maria Cueto, Rafael Cancel MirandaPublisher: New York Committee Against Grand Jury Repression; New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence; Rebeldia PublicationsYear: 1981Format: CompilationCollection: Grand Jury
Reproduction of writings on the Puerto Rican Liberation movement and the freedom of political prisoners and prisoners of war.
The Case of Jonathan Lowery The Case of Jonathan Lowery
Publisher: Hatcher Center for Human RightsFormat: CompilationCollection: Eddie Hatcher
Letter from Eddie Hatcher urging recipants to write US Attorney Janet Reno, a form letter and a flyer calling attention to the case of Jonathan Lowery and the selective prosecution of Native Americans in Robeson County, NC.
Letters of Support for Eddie Hatcher Letters of Support for Eddie Hatcher
Year: 1989Format: CompilationCollection: Eddie Hatcher
Letters from Ron Dellums (US Congress-California), Willie Brown (California Legislature) and John Burton (California Legislature) in protest of Eddie Hatcher's proposed extradition to Robeson County, NC.
Conspiracy of Voices Conspiracy of Voices
Authors: Marilyn Buck, Linda Evans, Susan Rosenburg, Laura WhitehornPublisher: Women in Support of Political PrisonersYear: 1990Format: CompilationCollection: Resistance Conspiracy
Poetry, Writings and Art of the Resistance Conspiracy Case
Free the Angola 3! Free the Angola 3!
Format: CompilationCollection: Angola 3
A packet assembled from various sources about the case of the Angola 3. Includes correspondence, legal papers, history of the BPP in Louisiana and writings by the Angola 3 and their supporters.
1990 Tribunal Fundraiser and Registration Letter 1990 Tribunal Fundraiser and Registration Letter
Authors: Margaret Randall, Rafael Cancel Miranda, Dan BerriganDate: 9/15/1990Volume Number: 15-SepFormat: CompilationCollection: 1990 Tribunal
Packet containing general and registration information concerning the 1990 Tribunal.
Queer, Ain't It? Queer, Ain't It?
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeFormat: CompilationCollection: Prarie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC)
A collection of writings from Prairie Fire Organizing Committee on AIDS and the liberation of women, lesbians and gay men.