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

NoKKK! No Fascist USA! NoKKK! No Fascist USA!
Publisher: John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 10/1992Volume Number: OctoberFormat: PeriodicalCollection: John Brown Anti-Klan Committee (JBAKC)
Newspaper of the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. Unheard Voices of the LA Rebellion; also: Racism in Germany; 1992 Elections; Voters on the Rights; Letters; News Briefs; Death Penalty=Legal Lynching; poetry and more.
New York 3 Freedom Campaign Newsletter New York 3 Freedom Campaign Newsletter
Publisher: New York Three Freedom CampaignYear: 1992Volume Number: Vol. 1-1Format: PeriodicalCollection: New York 3
Herman Bell, Anthony "Jalil" Bottom and Albert "Nuh" Washington (collectively known as the New York 3) are former members of the Black Panther Party and the Black Liberation Army who were convicted in 1975 of the assassination of two New York City police officers (Waverly Jones and Joseph Piagentini). They were sentenced to 25 years to life. That's all the state of New York and the government of the United States would have you know and believe the New York 3 are. Within these pages we will attempt to tell you the rest of the story.