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

About the New York Three About the New York Three
Publisher: New York Three Freedom Campaign West Coast CommitteeFormat: FlyerCollection: New York 3
Fact sheet about the New York Three
Control Unit Prisons Control Unit Prisons
Publisher: CLAWSFormat: FlyerCollection: Control Units
A brief factsheet about Control Unit Prisons and their conditions.
Research on International Law and Black Freedom Fighters in the US Research on International Law and Black Freedom Fighters in the US
Publisher: Research on International Law and Black Freedom Fighters in the USYear: 1990Format: FlyerCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners
Information on the institute and its activities
Free Kakwirakeron Free Kakwirakeron
Publisher: Free All Political PrisonersYear: 1990Format: FlyerCollection: Native Prisoners
History of Kakwirakeron's (a.k.a. Arthur Montour) arrest and incarceration as well as a demand for his release
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
People's tribunal to expose the Crimes of the Marion & Lexington Control Units People's tribunal to expose the Crimes of the Marion & Lexington Control Units
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown; Committee to Shut Down the Lexington Control Unit; National committee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of WarYear: 1987Format: FlyerCollection: Lexington Control Unit for Women
Flyer for 10/24/1987 tribunal.
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.