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

Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1979Volume Number: No. 4 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Articles include: Honor Fallen Freedom Fighters: Build Black August Month, Message from S.Q. Adjustment Center, Black Cultural Development and Revoluti onary Growth, Pontiac Update, Report from Folsom: Did Folsom Prison Of ficials have Complicity in Racist Attack on Blacks, Lewisburg Manifesto, B.L.A Under Attack, Call to Build a National Black Human Rights Coalition, Black Prison Guards, A Brief History on the Formation of ZANLA, Close Marion Control Unit!
Arm the Spirit Arm the Spirit
Publisher: Haight - Ashbury Arts WorkshopYear: 1979Volume Number: No. 5 NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Newspapers
Cover Story: Open Letter to Black People in US Prisons
Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News
Publisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Year: 1977Volume Number: Vol. 9 No. 5-6 July-DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
"ZUNU's War: Special July-December 1977"
Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News
Publisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Year: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-1 January-FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
"1978: The Year of the People"
Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News
Publisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Year: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-2 March-AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
"Chimurenga Day: The Sinoia Tradition 1978"
Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News
Publisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Year: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-2 May-JuneFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
ZANU and History: Armed Struggle Until Victory
Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News
Publisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Year: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-4 July-AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
Chimurenga is now liberating our country
Zimbabwe News Zimbabwe News
Publisher: Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU)Year: 1978Volume Number: Vol. 10-6 November-DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Zimbabwe
"1978- Milestone on the way to victory"
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1969Volume Number: Vol. 3-2 May 4Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Free Huey
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1974Volume Number: Vol. 11-25 June 15Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: SLA Death House Inferno- LAPD Search and Destroy Tactics Exposed. Also Inside: Oakland School Group Rejects $7.5 Million; Poetry at the Intercommunal Youth Institute; Georgia Governor Answers Huey Newton's Letter; CRIM School Supporters Continue Struggle; ZANLA Guerrillas Win Major Battles; Interview with OAU Liberation Committee; Charge SF Symphony Racist; Discrimination- The Case of Baseball, more.