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

The Middle East Between War and Peace: A Staff Report prepared for the use of the Subcommittee of Near Eastern Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate The Middle East Between War and Peace: A Staff Report prepared for the use of the Subcommittee of Near Eastern Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Relations United States Senate
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing OfficeDate: 5/5/1974Volume Number: 5-MayFormat: Government DocumentCollection: US and British Foreign Policy on Palestine
The Middle East Between War and Peace Novemeber-december 1973
The Colonization of the West Bank Territories by Israel: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate The Colonization of the West Bank Territories by Israel: Hearings before the Subcommittee on Immigration and Naturalization of the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing OfficeDate: 10/1978Volume Number: OctoberFormat: Government DocumentCollection: US and British Foreign Policy on Palestine
The Question of West Bank Settlements and the Treatment of Arabs in the Israeli-Occupied Territories, October 17-18, 1977.
International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights International Covenant of Civil and Political Rights
Publisher: United Nations General AssemblyDate: 12/16/1966Volume Number: 16-DecFormat: Government DocumentCollection: 1990 Tribunal
Adopted and opened for signature, ratification and accession by General Assembly resolution 2200 A (XXI) of 16 December 1966.
Written Testimony of Amnesty International USA on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women Written Testimony of Amnesty International USA on the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women
Publisher: Amnesty International USADate: 8/2/1990Volume Number: 2-AugFormat: Government DocumentCollection: Feminist and Lesbian Politics: Monographs-Periodicals-Articles
Submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States of America v. John J. Kearney United States of America v. John J. Kearney
Publisher: US District Court for the Southern District of New YorkDate: 4/7/1977Volume Number: 7-AprFormat: Government DocumentCollection: Cointelpro
Grand Jury charges filed against John J. Kearney, supervisor of FBI Squad 47.