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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 Movement The Movement
Publisher: The Movement PressYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. 1-9 SeptemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Movement Newspaper
The Movement The Movement
Publisher: The Movement PressYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. 1-11 NovemberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Movement Newspaper
44 Arrested: Strike gets Wide Support; Fraud in Arkansas School Elections; SF plans urban removal of aged; Redevelopment scandal; Washington will not enforce Welfare Rights Laws; 700 Arrested in Natchez; Harvard Part of the Mississippi Power Structure; The Battlefronts in Delano; Schenley (Roma Wine) Offices in SF Picketed; Poor people corporation; Notes on Rural Organizing; Job Corps Workers Strike for Hours, Wages; Things SNCC hasn't done; Conversation with Bob Parris; The nocturnal messenger; The rich get richer and the poor make payments
The Movement The Movement
Publisher: The Movement PressYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. 1-8 AugustFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Movement Newspaper
Tulare County Rent Strike, March; Tennessee freedom labor union poorest county organizes; The voice of the farm workers same as the negroes; The Populist Party (part 2); How and Organizer Works: some rambling guidelines for freedom school organizers; Fannie Lou Hamer; Against Legal de Facto Segregation; People's Papers; Mississippi - Summer '65 - The Pioneering days are over - freedom is still ahead; We want unions, we want action; Personal report from the Arkansas project: Hard work on many issues; NAACP convention: Some members complain about "restrictions"; Moderate Democratic body formed; From the Watts reports SNCC organized migrants; Farm wage hearings: Does it take slavery?; The Labor Movement moves to Latin America -- to train finks.
The Movement The Movement
Publisher: The Movement PressYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. 1-7 JulyFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Movement Newspaper
They Said we couldn't have a union: Militancy in the Delta; Why are farm workers poor?; The New Politics; The MFDP Challenge; A Movement Supplement; To the Mississippi congressmen is; Reject the pretenders; Disaster for Civil Rights; Editorial: Open letter to president Johnson; Must have free elections; Battle of 1965; Report from a lobbyist; The populist party (part 1); Mime Troupe Minstrel? Show; South Africa, land of the free (enterprise)
The Movement The Movement
Publisher: The Movement PressYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. 1-5 MayFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Movement Newspaper
SDS Regional Newsletter #5 SDS Regional Newsletter #5
Publisher: Students for a Democratic SocietyDate: 1/24/1965Volume Number: 24-JanFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Report on the Grape Strike and other regional news.
The Campus CORE-lator The Campus CORE-lator
Publisher: Berkeley Campus COREYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. I-4 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: CORE
Includes: Voices from Watts; poem, "Harlem," by Langston Hughes - mostly about Watts uprising
The Campus CORE-lator The Campus CORE-lator
Publisher: Berkeley Campus COREYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. I-4 FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: CORE
Includes: Voices from Watts; poem, "Harlem," by Langston Hughes - mostly about Watts uprising
the voice the voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc., AtlantaYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. 6-6 Dec 20Format: PeriodicalCollection: Lowndes County Freedom Organization
Includes: Negroes Win ASCS (Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation) Post, But Irregularities Charged Lowndes County Forms Local Political Group (Lowndes County Freedom Org.)
the voice the voice
Publisher: Student Voice, Inc., AtlantaYear: 1965Volume Number: Vol. 6-6 Dec 20Format: PeriodicalCollection: Lowndes County Freedom Organization
Includes: Negroes Win ASCS (Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation) Post, But Irregularities Charged Lowndes County Forms Local Political Group (Lowndes County Freedom Org.)