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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.
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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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New Year's Book New Year's Book
Publisher: Real Dragon Project/Prarie FireYear: 1987Format: PeriodicalCollection: Real Dragon Prison Project
Excerpts and contributions credited to: Kuwasi Balagoon; Bill Wahpehpah; Ricardo Morales Avilés; Mila D. Aguilar; Thulani Davis; Marilyn Lowen Fletcher; Jayne Cortez; Oscar Fuentes T.; Sekou Sundata; Rashed Hussein; Gale Jackson; Ho Chi Minh; Roque Dalton;
Free Puerto Rico! Free Puerto Rico!
Publisher: New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican Independence and SocialismYear: 1987Volume Number: FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: New Movement
Azania Combat- Official Organ of the Azanian People\'s Liberation Army (APLA) Azania Combat- Official Organ of the Azanian People\'s Liberation Army (APLA)
Publisher: PAC Military Wing (APLA/POQO)Year: 1987Volume Number: Issue 3Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Reproduction of the original. Inside: The Azanian People now know their enemy.
Azania Commando-supplement to Azania Combat- Official Organ of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) Azania Commando-supplement to Azania Combat- Official Organ of the Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA)
Publisher: PAC Military Wing (APLA/POQO)Year: 1987Volume Number: Supplement 2Format: PeriodicalCollection: South Africa
Reproduction of the original. Special tribute to three APLA men who fell in the Bramley Battle
No KKK! No Fascist USA! No KKK! No Fascist USA!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeYear: 1987Format: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1987Volume Number: Vol. 11-1 Winter-SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorials: Puerto Rico: Yankee Go Home p. 1 - Defend the Palestinian Revolution p. 4 - Contragate p. 6 - Chicago: Confronting the Racist Right p. 7 - Myth of Black Progress, New Afrikan People's Organization p. 17 - Kuwasi Balagoon 1946-1986 p. 21 - U.S. and Zaire Training African Contras p. 22 - Chile: Crisis in the Southern Cone p. 24 - Interview with Puerto Rican Patriot Rafael Cancel Miranda p. 31 - From the Clandestine Movement: Communiques from the Puerto Rican People's Army - Machateros p. 38 - On the Chicago Indictments p. 40 - Shut Down the Lexington Control Unit p. 41 - Statement by Watani Tyehimba to the Grand Jury p. 42 - Write Through the Walls p. 43 - Bill Wahpehpah 1937-1987 p. 45
Breakthrough Breakthrough
Publisher: Prarie Fire Organizing CommitteeYear: 1987Volume Number: Vol. 11-2 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Breakthrough
Editorials: Stop the AIDS Panic! P. 1 - Profiles in Cowardice: the Iran-Contra Committee p. 4 - Sabotaging the Peace Plan p. 5 - Sex, Porn and Feminism p. 8 - Fathoming the Gulf War p. 14 - Drop the Charges! The Real Crime is Colonialism, Natl Cttee to Free Puerto Rican Prisoners of War p. 22 - Precious Lives, poem, Annie Johnston p. 25 - El Salvador: Time of Decision interview with FMLN/FDR p. 26 - Sanctuary Means Stopping the War, Interview with Sanctuary activists Michael McConnell and Renny Golden p. 35 - Behind Aquino's Facade: Documents from the Alliance for Philippine Concerns p. 41 - Speech to the First Congress of the Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional Puertorriqueno p. 47 - Write Through the Walls p. 51 - They Tell Us to Wait, poem, Camomile p. 53
The Insurgent The Insurgent
Publisher: Committee to Fight RepressionYear: 1987Volume Number: Vol. 3-2 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Insurgent
The Insurgent The Insurgent
Publisher: Committee to Fight RepressionYear: 1987Volume Number: Vol. 3-1 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Insurgent