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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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The Conquest and it's Impact The Conquest and it's Impact
Format: CompilationCollection: Native Americans
Articles include: The Conquest and its Consequences; Silver and Money Capitalism; Culture; Columbus and the Orgins of Racism in the Americas; Tribal Warfare; Scalping, Rethinking Terminology, and Maps: Taking Euroupe off Center Stage; Newsweek Meets the 500 Years of Resistance, Excerpt from Newsweek Special Issue, When Worlds Collide: How Columbus's Voyages Transformed Both East and West; Whose America?
Campaign to free Jose Luis Avina packet Campaign to free Jose Luis Avina packet
Publisher: Campaign to free Jose Luis Avina; Bario Defense Committee; Anarchist Black Cross Foundation; Format: CompilationCollection: Raza Prison
Reproductions. Compilation of information from various sources
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.
State Monitors for Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons State Monitors for Campaign to Stop Control Unit Prisons
Publisher: National Campaign to Abolish Control unit PrisonsFormat: CompilationCollection: American Friends Service Committee
Name; Address; Phone/email. Part of 7/28/1995 mailing.
Colonialism in Puerto Rico: News and Articles on: The Environment Militarization Colonialism in Puerto Rico: News and Articles on: The Environment Militarization
Publisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersFormat: CompilationCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
A compilation of news articles about the environmental movement in Puerto Rico and its fight with the US military, multinational corporations, rampant industrialization and the tourism industry.
Dr. Jose Solis Jordan Reader Dr. Jose Solis Jordan Reader
Author: Dr. Jose Solis JordanPublisher: National Committee to Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political PrisonersFormat: CompilationCollection: Free Puerto Rican POWs and Political Prisoners
Articles about the case of Jose Solis Jordan. Index: Academic Endorsements for Dr. Jose Solis Jordan; Defense Committee Literature; English Mainstream Press; Spanish Mainstream Press; Leftist Press; Student Publications.
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.
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 Discussion Series Women Against Imperialism Discussion Series
Publisher: Women Against ImperialismVolume Number: SpringFormat: CompilationCollection: Women Against Imperialism
Main Themes: Women's bodies in the 90s, the military and women, Zionism, Palestine, antisemitism, women and activism.
World Public Opinion and Israel World Public Opinion and Israel
Publisher: United Arab Republic Ministry of National Guidance State Information ServiceVolume Number: Series 6Format: CompilationCollection: US and British Foreign Policy on Palestine
A History of the Balfour Declaration as published in London by the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding in October 1967.