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

My Refusal to Remain Silent: A Press Release of the SHU My Refusal to Remain Silent: A Press Release of the SHU
Publisher: South Chicago ABCFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Anarchist Black Cross (ABC)
Statement from an Indiana SHU
Assata Bulletin Assata Bulletin
Publisher: Assata Shakur Defense CommitteeDate: 3/7/1977Volume Number: 7-MarFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Assata Shakur
Information Includes: Demonstration of Black Solidarity with Assata; Campus Support for Assata Grows; Attempt to Silence Black Lawyers; Legal Update.
Assata Bulletin Assata Bulletin
Publisher: Assata Shakur Defense CommitteeDate: 10/1974Volume Number: OctoberFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Assata Shakur
Attacks on Assata Continue
Shut the SHU Shut the SHU
Publisher: California Prison FocusDate: 5/26/2004Volume Number: 26-MayFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Prison Focus
Published in the Bayview Newspaper
"An Evening of Video, Music, & Resistance" "An Evening of Video, Music, & Resistance"
Author: Noelle HanrahanPublisher: Bay Area Resistance Conspiracy Defense Committee, Freedom Now!, Out of Control Women's Committee to Support Political Prisoners, Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, Women Against ImperialismDate: 8/1990Volume Number: AugustFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Resistance Conspiracy
Press release of East Bay premiere of "Resistance Conspiracy"
Park Slope Community Demonstrates Against Vigilante Recruitment Center Park Slope Community Demonstrates Against Vigilante Recruitment Center
Publisher: The Moncada Library and John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 6/9/1981Volume Number: 9-JunFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Moncada Library
Statement of Moncada Library and John Brown Anti-Klan Committee in Response to Police Attack Statement of Moncada Library and John Brown Anti-Klan Committee in Response to Police Attack
Publisher: The Moncada Library and John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 5/14/1981Volume Number: 14-MayFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Moncada Library
Statement about an attack on John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Moncada library members on May 9th, 1981 by Ralph Busti and police officers.
Demonstration to Protest the Building of a White Vigilante Motor Patrol (S.C.A.N.) in Park Slope, Brooklyn Demonstration to Protest the Building of a White Vigilante Motor Patrol (S.C.A.N.) in Park Slope, Brooklyn
Publisher: The Moncada Library and John Brown Anti-Klan CommitteeDate: 3/24/1981Volume Number: 24-MarFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Moncada Library
Moncada Library/Biblioteca Moncada Moncada Library/Biblioteca Moncada
Publisher: The Moncada LibraryDate: 9/1978Volume Number: SeptemberFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Moncada Library
Assata Bulletin Assata Bulletin
Publisher: Assata Shakur Defense CommitteeDate: 1/1977Volume Number: JanuaryFormat: Press ReleaseCollection: Assata Shakur
Information includes: Who is Assata; Solidarity Statements; Updates on the case and Sundiata Acoli; Come to the Trial.