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

LA Prison Times LA Prison Times
Year: 2007Volume Number: FallFormat: PeriodicalCollection: LA Prison Times
Prison Focus Prison Focus
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2007Volume Number: No. 29 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Focus
Prison Focus Prison Focus
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2007Volume Number: No. 27 SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Focus
Cover Story- International Imprisonment
Prison Focus Prison Focus
Publisher: California Prison FocusYear: 2007Volume Number: No. 28 SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prison Focus
Cover Story- U Made This Fist
The Abolitionist The Abolitionist
Publisher: Critical ResistanceYear: 2007Volume Number: SpringFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Abolitionist
The Ordeal of Dr. Sami Al-Arian The Ordeal of Dr. Sami Al-Arian
Author: Peter erlinderPublisher: Washington Report Date: 4/2007Volume Number: AprilFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Sami Al-Arian
The Fire Inside The Fire Inside
Publisher: California Coalition for Women PrisonersYear: 2007Volume Number: No. 34 WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Prisons - Women
Que Ondee Sola: 35th Anniversary Que Ondee Sola: 35th Anniversary
Publisher: Que Ondee SolaYear: 2007Volume Number: Vol. 35-1 December-JanuaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Que Ondee Sola
Plantando Semillas- The Latin@ Student Struggle at NEIU
Que Ondee Sola Que Ondee Sola
Publisher: Que Ondee SolaYear: 2007Volume Number: Vol. 35-2 FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Que Ondee Sola
La tercera ra
Que Ondee Sola Que Ondee Sola
Publisher: Que Ondee SolaYear: 2007Volume Number: Vol. 35-3 MarchFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Que Ondee Sola
Mujeres de Resistencia (Women of Resistence)