Search Help

How does this work?
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.

Search Results

Justice for battered women: Free Claudia Reddy Justice for battered women: Free Claudia Reddy
Publisher: Compassionate Release Program of the HIV/AIDS in Prison Project; California Coalition for Women PrisonersFormat: FlyerCollection: Violence Against Women
Flyer demanding justice in the case of Claudia Reddy whose crime was defending herself against and killing her abusive husband.
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
A Living Tomb A Living Tomb
Publisher: National Campaign to Abolish the Lexington Women's Control UnitYear: 1988Format: FlyerCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Originally published in The Nation 3/26/1988
Move Alejandrina, Susan, and Silvia to General Population Move Alejandrina, Susan, and Silvia to General Population
Publisher: Campaign for Amnesty and Human Rights for Political Prisoners in the USFormat: FlyerCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Reproduction
There Are Women Political Prisoners in the US There Are Women Political Prisoners in the US
Publisher: Out of Control: Committee to Shut Down Lexington Control UnitYear: 1988Format: FlyerCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Information on Lexington Control Unit and the women imprisoned there.
Letter/Phone Campaign to Shut Down the Lexington Control Unit Letter/Phone Campaign to Shut Down the Lexington Control Unit
Year: 1987Format: FlyerCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Advertisement for 11/23/1987 phone/letter campaign to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
Female High Security Unit Female High Security Unit
Publisher: Daedalus Productions, Inc..Year: 1987Format: FlyerCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Reproduction. Media mateirals attached.
The Women of the Lexington Control Unit: Where are they Now? The Women of the Lexington Control Unit: Where are they Now?
Publisher: Freedom NowFormat: FlyerCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Flyer opposing the confinement of these women in MCC, demand to place the women in general population and the transfer to Silvia Baraldini to a prison in Italy.
Eyes of the Rainbow Documentary Screening Eyes of the Rainbow Documentary Screening
Year: 1988Format: FlyerCollection: Assata Shakur
Flyer for a screening of Eyes of the Rainbow at the Alice Art Theater