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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.
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.

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United States of America: The High Security Unit, Lexington Federal Prison, Kentucky United States of America: The High Security Unit, Lexington Federal Prison, Kentucky
Publisher: Amnesty InternationalDate: 8/1988Volume Number: AugustFormat: ExcerptCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Reproduction of summary published August 1988
The Black Man and Self-Defense The Black Man and Self-Defense
Author: Robert F. WilliamsYear: 1962Format: ExcerptCollection: Republic of New Afrika
Chapter taken from Negroes with Guns.
Questions about the New control Unit Prisons ("Administrative Maximum Security Facility") Being Planned at Florence, Colorado Questions about the New control Unit Prisons ("Administrative Maximum Security Facility") Being Planned at Florence, Colorado
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1991Format: ExcerptCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
Questions regarding policies and procedures planned for USP Florence, CO. Part of Packet (Enclosure 7)
U.S. Government Continues Attack on Revolutionary Black Women U.S. Government Continues Attack on Revolutionary Black Women
Author: Vicki AdamsPublisher: African People\'s Socialist PartyVolume Number: Vol. 4-9 FebruaryFormat: ExcerptCollection: African People's Socialist Party (APSP)
Women in the Colonial Society: Oppression Women in the Colonial Society: Oppression
Author: Margarita MergalFormat: ExcerptCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
An overview of the socialist revolutionary struggle in Puerto Rico but focusing on the role of women in the struggle as they experience specific forms of oppression and exploitation.
The Revolutionary Children of Eritrea The Revolutionary Children of Eritrea
Publisher: Women Against ImperialismYear: 1978Format: ExcerptCollection: Eritrea
Women Against Imperialism reproduced this article, translated froma West German bi-weekly, Arbeiterkampf, by People\\\'s Translation Service
Emigration and Sterilization in Puerto Rico Emigration and Sterilization in Puerto Rico
Author: Bonnie MassPublisher: Latin America Working GroupYear: 1976Format: ExcerptCollection: Sterilization
From Population target : the political economy of population control in Latin America
The Politics of Rape in Vietnam The Politics of Rape in Vietnam
Author: Arlene Eisen BergmanPublisher: Peoples PressYear: 1974Format: ExcerptCollection: Vietnam
Excerpt from book Women of Vietnam by Arlene Eisen Bergman
Women in the Colonial Society: Massive Sterilization Women in the Colonial Society: Massive Sterilization
Author: Margarita MergalFormat: ExcerptCollection: Puerto Rico: A History of the People
This excerpt is about massive sterilization and the myth of overpopulation. Includes information on sterilization as part of the the colonial project in Puerto Rico.