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

Puerto Rico Fact Sheet: Independence or Annexation Puerto Rico Fact Sheet: Independence or Annexation
Publisher: Movimiento de Liberacion Nacional; New Movement in Solidarity with Puerto Rican IndependenceFormat: ReportCollection: New Movement
Report with information on the history of Puerto Rico, its political status, its economic situation, important dates in Puerto Rican history, resistance to US colonialism, Vieques, colonial political parties in Puerto Rico and independence parties and organizations.
South Yemen: Hitched to a Red Star - A report from the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen South Yemen: Hitched to a Red Star - A report from the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
Author: Eric RouleauPublisher: Middle East Research and Information ProjectYear: 1972Format: ReportCollection: Revolutionary Movements and History
This report originally appeared as two articles in the English edition of Le Monde.
Southern Africa and the United Nations Southern Africa and the United Nations
Publisher: United Nations Association of the United StatesDate: 4/1980Volume Number: AprilFormat: ReportCollection: Africa- General Resources
Zimbabwe :A New Beginning/South Africa: Out of Step with the World/ Namibia: A trust Betrayed/ US Policy in Southern Africa
Israel and Human Rights (as observed in the portions of Egypt, Jordan and Syria occupied by Israel since June, 1967) Israel and Human Rights (as observed in the portions of Egypt, Jordan and Syria occupied by Israel since June, 1967)
Author: L. Humphrey WalzPublisher: Americans for Middle East UnderstandingDate: 10/11/1977Volume Number: 11-OctFormat: ReportCollection: Americans for Middle East Understanding
Preliminary report to the 216th session of the UN General Assembly Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting Human Rights of the Population of the Occupied Territories.