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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 Case of the New York Three The Case of the New York Three
Publisher: New York Three Freedom CampaignFormat: MonographCollection: New York 3
Why are these men three of the longest held political prisoners in the United States; Denial of a fair trial; Denial of impartial post-trial reviews of conviction; COINTELPRO uses the media: CBS docu-drama; Work to free the New York Three.
New York 3 Update New York 3 Update
Author: Herman BellDate: 6/1997Volume Number: JuneFormat: MonographCollection: New York 3
Table of Contents include: Background; Illegal tactics used to convict the NY3; Why are we treated this way; How we've spent our time since 1986 update; Current attack on our illegal conviction; What you can do to help overturn our conviction.
New Afrikan/Black Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War: Conditions of Confinement New Afrikan/Black Political Prisoners and Prisoners of War: Conditions of Confinement
Author: Jill Soffiyah ElijahFormat: MonographCollection: New Afrikan Prisoners
Essay on the conditions of confinement for New Afrikan/Black political prisoners and prisoners of war. 1 copy with handwritten notes
Proclaim Release!: A Call to Conscience and Action for the Release of Puerto Rican Political Prisoners Proclaim Release!: A Call to Conscience and Action for the Release of Puerto Rican Political Prisoners
Publisher: Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience ProjectYear: 1997Format: MonographCollection: Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience
3rd ed.
Repression in the Land of the Free Repression in the Land of the Free
Publisher: International Network Against New State RepressionFormat: MonographCollection: Grand Jury
Information to expose and resist the ever-growing attacks by the US government against progressive and revolutionary movements.
Death Penalty Focus: General Information Packet Death Penalty Focus: General Information Packet
Publisher: Death Penalty Focus of CaliforniaFormat: MonographCollection: Death penalty
Contains reproduced articles and essays supporting the abolition of the death penalty.
The Case Against the Death Penalty The Case Against the Death Penalty
Author: Hugo Adam BedauPublisher: American Civil Liberties UnionYear: 1992Format: MonographCollection: Death penalty
Revised edition. The ACLU holds that the death penalty inherently violates the constitutional ban against cruel and unusual punishment and the guarantee of due process of law and the equal protection of the laws. Contents of monograph include: Introduction, Deterrence, Unfairness, Inevitability of Error, Barbarity, Retribution, Financial Costs, Public Opinion, Abolition Trends, Further Information.
Control Unit Prisons: Health and Human Rights Violations Control Unit Prisons: Health and Human Rights Violations
Publisher: Health Committee of the Campaign to Abolish Lexington Control UnitDate: 11/15/1988Volume Number: 15-NovFormat: MonographCollection: Control Units
Presented to the American Public Health Association on November 15, 1988 by the Socialist Caucus. Contents include: The Health Affects of Control Unit Prisons; APHA Opposes Lexington High Security Unit; The Women of Lexington Prison; Victory in Lexington Lawsuit; The Marion Control Unit; United Nations Position on Puerto Rican POWs; Public Health Decimates Puerto Rico; Oye-Listen; What is Torture?; Stress and Illness Biography
Social control and the Politics of Prisons! Social control and the Politics of Prisons!
Publisher: Break The ChainsFormat: MonographCollection: Control Units
Reproduction. Contains articles by Sundiata Lumuba; Hatari WaHaki; Dharuba Cinque Kalahari; Daud Obika Tulam; Kareen Stovall; Gene Jones; Ojore Nuru Lutalo; Bill Sanderson; Peter Page; and Tom Manning. Also includes Rothman DJ. The American Way of Jail (review of Crime and Punishment in America by Elliott Currie and Sensible Justice: Alternatives to Prison by David C. Andersion), in The New York Times Book Review, March 1, 1998.
Los Derechos Humanos en los Estados Unidos: El Relato Inconcluso Sobre Los Presos Politicos y de las Victimas de Cointelpro Los Derechos Humanos en los Estados Unidos: El Relato Inconcluso Sobre Los Presos Politicos y de las Victimas de Cointelpro
Authors: Nkechi Taifa, Kathleen Neal Cleaver, Michael Tarif Warren, Bruce Ellison, Geronimo ji Jaga, Laura WhitehornPublisher: Human Rights Research Fund, Release 2001Year: 2001Format: MonographCollection: Cointelpro
In Spanish. This pamphlet was adapted from the transcript of the September 14, 2000 forum that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga) hosted during the Congressional Black Caucus's legislative weekend in Washington DC. It could not have been published without the expert editorial work of Laura Whitehorn and Susie Day.