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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.

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The 10th Annnual New Years Book The 10th Annnual New Years Book
Publisher: Real Dragon Project/Prarie FireYear: 1992Format: PeriodicalCollection: Real Dragon Prison Project
Excerpts and contributions credited to: Edwin Cortez; Wopashitwe Mundo Eyen we Langa; Francisco Alarcón; Langston Hughes; June Jordan; Audre Lorde; Sheila Medina; Laura Hershey; Tom Manning; Abdul Haqq; Abdul Hassen; Aki Lumumba; Mickey Duxbury; mary Tallmountain; Laura Whitehorn; Miguel Huezo Mixco;
Walkin' Steel Walkin' Steel
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 2-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
CEML Newsletter. Includes: 12 Month Campaign; Prisoners Resist Westville; Florence Update; May 2nd Illinois Prison Tour; May 2nd National Reports; International Interest;
Walkin' Steel Walkin' Steel
Publisher: Committee to End the Marion LockdownYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 1-3Format: PeriodicalCollection: Committee to End the Marion Lockdown
CEML newsletter. Includes: The Call for Joint Actions; The New Warden At Marion; Water Update; What is A Control unit Prison?; May Actions Against control Units; Horrors of Westville Control unit; Prisoners Demonstrate Solidarity; Pelican bay Prisoners Sue; People to Contact; Human Rights Watch Report; Get In Touch With CEML
Pelican Bay Prison Express Pelican Bay Prison Express
Publisher: Pelican Bay Information ProjectYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 1-1 OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Pelican Bay
Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletter Coalition for Prisoners' Rights Newsletter
Publisher: Coalition for Prisoners' Rights/Prison Project of Santa FeYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 17-12 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Private Prisons
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther Newspaper CommitteeYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 1-4 For Mumia FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Stop State Murder of Mumia. Also Inside: Open Letter to Youth; BPP 25th Year; May Day Threat; Reagan/Bush economics; International News; Haitian Update; A Kinder Apartheid; Fallen Comrades; POWs/Political Prisoners; Survival Programs; Marin City CDC, more.
NoKKK! No Fascist USA! NoKKK! No Fascist USA!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 10/1992Volume Number: OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. Unheard Voices of the LA Rebellion; also: Racism in Germany; 1992 Elections; Voters on the Rights; Letters; News Briefs; Death Penalty=Legal Lynching; poetry and more.
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 16-1 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Goodbye, Columbus: Thoughts on Western Civilization, Jimmy Emmerman p. 1 - El Salvador: the Road Ahead, interview with FMLN Representative Ramon Cardona p. 4 - A Feminist Guide to the Galaxy, Judith Mirkinson p. 9 - Backlash: the Undeclared War on American Women by Susan Faludi, reviewed by Sally Thomas p. 15 - De Ambiente, interviews with the Nicaraguan Movement of Lesbian Feminists and Gay Men p. 17 - Will Postmodernism Kill the Movement? Les Gottesman p. 24 - Black Women and AIDS: the Second Epidemic, Judy Gerber p. 32 - Supermax: Control Unit Prisons, Nancy Kurshan p. 40 - Can\'t Kill the Spirit: Political Prisoners Update p. 46 - Write Through the Walls p. 47
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 16-2 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorial: Who Decides? Sally Thomas p. 1 - 500 Years: Recovering the Past, Revisioning the Future, Editors, p. 2 - To Regain Our Sovereignty, interview with Leonard Peltier p. 2 - Unraveling the Myths, Jose Lopez p. 8 - Sister Activist: Liberating the Church, Sister Mary Kay Hunyady p. 13 - From Columbus to Rodney King: the Los Angeles Rebellion and Beyond Akinyele Umoja p. 19 - Through Artists\' Eyes p. 24 - Fear of the Shivers of Freedom, Ingrid Strobl p. 30 - La Patria es Una!, Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional Mexicano p. 35 - Back to Backlash, Margaret Power and Melinda Power p. 38 - Can\'t Jail the Spirit:Uprising at Lexington Federal Women\'s Prison, Laura Whitehorn p. 41; Dhoruba Bin Wahad Threatened with Reimprisonment p. 42 -From Death Row: this is Mumia Abu-Jamal p. 43 - Write Through the Walls p. 48
Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance Arm the Spirit: For Revolutionary Resistance
Publisher: Arm the SpiritYear: 1992Volume Number: No. 11 January-FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Arm the Spirit For Revolutionary Resistance