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

SDS Educational Packet- What We Want What We Believe SDS Educational Packet- What We Want What We Believe
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Black Panther Party Platform and Program
The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service The Black Panther: Intercommunal News Service
Publisher: New Panther Vanguard MovementYear: 2000Volume Number: Vol. 1-7 AutumnFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Modern Globalism is Reactionary Intercommunalism; The Death Penalty: Civilized Lynching
Commemorator Commemorator
Publisher: Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther PartyYear: 2003Volume Number: Vol. 13-1 JanuaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Commemorator
Cover Story: Bobby Hutton Literacy Program: Let's Keep the Record Straight; Headstone to Honor Li'l Bobby Hutton: CCBPP projects placement to occur early 2003
Rob Williams Returns Home Rob Williams Returns Home
Publisher: The North StarDate: 12/1969Volume Number: DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Pusher Man: a poem Pusher Man: a poem
Author: Robert F. WilliamsPublisher: Forward MotionDate: 9/1991Volume Number: SeptemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Robert F. Williams!
A poem by Robert F. Williams
Commemorator Commemorator
Publisher: Commemoration Committee for The Black Panther PartyYear: 1990Volume Number: Vol. 1-2 DecemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Commemorator
Cover Story: Gang of Violent Criminals Who Terrorized America's Ghettos and Assulted Law Enforcement Agencies- EX radical Horowitz
Commemorator Commemorator
Publisher: Commemoration Committee for the Black Panther PartyYear: 2006Volume Number: Vol. 16-2 OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: The Commemorator
Cover Story: 40th Anniversary Commenmoration of the Black Panther Party: A Time to Reaffirm a Cadre Commitment to the Ten-Point Program; Li'l Bobby Hutton Litearcy Campaign Expands
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service The Black Panther: Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther Party for Self-DefenseYear: 1967Volume Number: Vol. 1-6 November 23Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Right On! Right On!
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1971Volume Number: POSHU 1 No. 1Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
The Crusader Monthly Newsletter The Crusader Monthly Newsletter
Author: Robert F. WilliamsYear: 1962Volume Number: Vol. 3-9 MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Robert F. Williams!
Afro-Americans & Slick John Kennedy