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

The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1974Volume Number: Vol. 11-16 April 13Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: SLA Field Marshall Cinque- Revolutionary or Police Agent? Also Inside: Youth Institute Group 4; Arson Destroys Houston BPP Garage; 3rd World Nations Demand Control; Mama Love Murdered; Portuguese Officers' Movement; China Readies for Threat; African Revolutionary Music; Racism in Sports, more.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1974Volume Number: Vol. 11-25 June 15Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: SLA Death House Inferno- LAPD Search and Destroy Tactics Exposed. Also Inside: Oakland School Group Rejects $7.5 Million; Poetry at the Intercommunal Youth Institute; Georgia Governor Answers Huey Newton's Letter; CRIM School Supporters Continue Struggle; ZANLA Guerrillas Win Major Battles; Interview with OAU Liberation Committee; Charge SF Symphony Racist; Discrimination- The Case of Baseball, more.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1975Volume Number: Vol. 13-15 June 2Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: (Equal Time Demanded of CBS-TV) Mike Wallace Distortions of BPP Deliberate. Also Inside: Johnny Spain Forcibly Removed from Hospital; Atmore-Holman Brother Found Dead; Wilber Haddock On Visit to BPP; Friendship First in China-US Track Meets, more.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1975Volume Number: Vol. 13-19 June 30Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Winston-Salem, NC BPP Names JoAnn Little Woman of the Year. Also Inside: Milwaukee BPP Fights Prison Death Chambers; Did the CIA Hit Chicago Hood?; United Army for Angola; Black Belt on CLC's Martial Arts Program, more.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyYear: 1976Volume Number: Vol. 16-1 November 13Format: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: Memorial Rally for Slain Black Youth- On November 7 Tyrone Guyton Would Have Been 18-Years-Old. Also Inside: Widows of San Quentin Guards Sue LAPD; San Antonio Tenants Seek HUD Sanctions Against OHA; All-Black City Fights for Survival; Frontline Presidents- Armed Struggle is the Only Way in Zimbabwe, more.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther Newspaper CommitteeYear: 1991Volume Number: Vol. 1-1 Spring Memorial IssueFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The Struggle Continues. Also Inside: Black Community News; Political Prisoners and POWs; New Jersey Boycotts Colgate; Organizing Afrikan-Amerikan Students; Fallen Comrades; AIDS and Afrikan-Americans; Drugs, racism and the destruction of communities; Homelessness in Oakland; Neocolonialism in Philadelphia; International News; Huey's Funeral; Survival Programs; Key BPP Writings/Documents; Eulogies and Remembrances; Chronology-The Formative Years; Revolutionary Arts/Culture; more.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther Newspaper CommitteeYear: 1991Volume Number: Vol. 1-2 For Malcolm SummerFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The Legacy of Malcolm X. Also Inside: Budget Cuts and Education; LA Merchant of Death; LA Police May Kick Your Yo Ass; International News; Slave Traders in Afrika; Winnie Mandela Found Guilty; Fallen Comrades; POWs, Political Prisoners; Dhoruba bin Wahad; Bashir Hameed; Help Save Mumia; more.
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.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther Newspaper CommitteeYear: 1995Volume Number: Vol. 4-1 New World Order WinterFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: New World Order. Also Inside: The New World Order=Neo-Fascism; Death Penalty- Reality Check Time; The Black Codes Revisited- True Crime in Amerikkka; John Hendrik Clarke- Black PP/POWs; South Africa at the Crossroads?; The Art of Self-Defense; more.
The Black Panther Black Community News Service The Black Panther Black Community News Service
Publisher: The Black Panther PartyDate: 2/2014Volume Number: FebruaryFormat: PeriodicalCollection: Black Panther Party Community News Service
Cover Story: The Black Panther Party 47th Anniversary Honoring Our Political Prisoners