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

Demonstrate! Demonstrate!
Publisher: Committee for the Suit Against Government MisconductVolume Number: 28-MayFormat: MonographCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Women and the Fight Against Cointelpro: An Evening in Solidarity with Black Freedom Fighters Women and the Fight Against Cointelpro: An Evening in Solidarity with Black Freedom Fighters
Publisher: Committee for the Suit Against Government MisconductVolume Number: 4-MayFormat: MonographCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Free All Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War! Free All Political Prisoners & Prisoners of War!
Publisher: Committee for the Suit Against Government MisconductVolume Number: 17-AugFormat: MonographCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Demonstratre Against FBI Coverup! Demonstratre Against FBI Coverup!
Format: MonographCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
How to Deal with Police How to Deal with Police
Format: MonographCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
The Spook Who Sat by the Door The Spook Who Sat by the Door
Publisher: Moncada LibraryVolume Number: 28-MarFormat: MonographCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Resist! Don Resist! Don
Publisher: Women's Committee Against GenocideFormat: MonographCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Free the Anti-Springbok-5 Free the Anti-Springbok-5
Publisher: The Anti-Springbok-5 Defense CommitteeFormat: MonographCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Support New Afrikan Freedom Fighters! Support New Afrikan Freedom Fighters!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeVolume Number: 21-AugFormat: MonographCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Determined to be Free Determined to be Free
Publisher: Women's Committee Against GenocideFormat: MonographCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)